possible-histories.pdf

Many Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Traveling enabled men to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage, while Syrian women’s roles in peddling led to more economic autonomy. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores this peddling economy...

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Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2023
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.140