Front Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. Illusory Roots: Europeans, Autochthony, and Visions of a Capital City
Chapter Two. The Rhetoric of Refoulement in Colonial Dakar
Chapter Three. Challenges and Solutions of the Transient City
Chapter Four. Impediments and Ingenuity in Financial Life
Chapter Five. Ethnic Boundaries, Economic Niches, and Ambiguities in the Colonial City
Chapter Six The Lebanese and the Local in the Interwar Period
Chapter Seven. War's Window: Urban Informality and Control
Epilogue
Bibliography