Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said :Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said :Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
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28 October, 2025
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780520424715 |
| ISBN10 | 0520424719 |
| Number Of Pages | 356 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | University of California Press |
| Format | paperback |
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"Well researched and superbly written." * Journal of European Economic History *
"In Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said, Lucia Carminati offers an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of the laborers, loiterers, migrants, and transients who passed through the city. . . . Carminati teases from a host of minor events the texture of life in a city made of and by people on the move." * American Historical Review *
"A superb history. . . .Such a lucid, passionate and rhetoric-free meditation about the quintessential diasporic nature of the human condition remains one of the enduring achievements of Carminati's book, together with its final exhortation to restore migrants' lives and experiences, despite their usual fragmentariness and sparseness, to the center of global history. . . .A must-read." * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
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Author's Bio
Lucia Carminati is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.