Ebook: Beirut on the Bayou: Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the Making of Modern Lebanon

Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Alfred remembers; 1 Fares Bozeid Moujaes; Of silk and stone; Palace builders; From Beiteddine to Hadath; 2 Habib Fares Shwayri; Rebirth of Beirut; Toward civil war; The failure of the caimaqamat system; 1860, the year of transformations; 3 Nicolas Habib Shwayri; The Organic Statutes; The Administrative Council: Prefiguration of the House of Representatives; To finish with Youssef bey Karam; A bustling but constrained economy; The new imperialisms; Part II: Alfred in Louisiana; 4 From Lebanon to Louisiana; Ellis Island.