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.

Will Hanley is associate professor of history at Florida State University.

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List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Nationality Grasped
Part I: Settings
1. Vulgar Cosmopolitanism
2. Keywords
Part II: Means
3. Papers
4. Census
5. Money
6. Marriage
Part III: Other Nationalities
7. Europeans
8. Foreigners
9. Protégés
10. Bad Subjects
11. Ottomans
12. Locals
Epilogue: Egyptians in a World of Universal Nationality
Notes
Bibliography
Index