 | Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria Subjects: Alexandria (Egypt) -- Ethnic relations -- History; Nationalism -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History; Citizenship -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History; Group identity -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History; Identifying with Nationality traces the advent of modern citizenship to multinational, transimperial settings such as turn-of-the-century colonial Alexandria, where ordinary people abandoned old identifiers and grasped nationality as the best means to access the protections promised by expanding states. The result was a system that continues to define and divide people through status, mobility, and residency. Will Hanley is assistant professor of history at Florida State University. |
