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Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Worlding the Middle East)

Stacy D. Fahrenthold

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Description:As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and ready-wear clothing—moved along steamship routes from Beirut through Marseille and Madeira to New York City, New England, and Veracruz. As migrants and merchants crisscrossed the Atlantic in pursuit of work, Syrian textile manufacturing expanded across the hemisphere. Unmentionables offers a history of the global textile industry and the Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians who worked in it.Winner of the 2025 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Worlding the Middle East). To get started finding Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Worlding the Middle East), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and ready-wear clothing—moved along steamship routes from Beirut through Marseille and Madeira to New York City, New England, and Veracruz. As migrants and merchants crisscrossed the Atlantic in pursuit of work, Syrian textile manufacturing expanded across the hemisphere. Unmentionables offers a history of the global textile industry and the Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians who worked in it.Winner of the 2025 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Worlding the Middle East). To get started finding Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Worlding the Middle East), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Worlding the Middle East)

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