A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a life crossing empires. M'hamed Oualdi investigates Husayn's transimperial life and the posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational dimensions of North African history.

• | Author: M'hamed Oualdi
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: February 04, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0231191863
• | ISBN-13: 9780231191869