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The introduction makes the case for nationality as a useful category of historical analysis. It characterizes nationality as practical, novel, contingent, strategic, legal, and colonial. In conversation with scholarly histories of citizenship and the nation, the introduction argues that turn-of-the-century Alexandria, with its tremendous jurisdictional complexity, is a privileged place to understand the general phenomenon. The introduction closes with a summary of the sources and outline of the book. |
