Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This is a study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, that offers the picture to date of the Mediterranean before, and during, French colonialism.

List of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration Introduction: Peoplings 1. Arrival: Tunis the Well-Protected" 2. Detours: Migrations in a Mobile World 3. Making a Living: Domestic Service and Other Forms of Employment 4. Making a Living: Petty Commerce, Places of Sociability, and the Down-and-Out 5. Making a Living: The Sea, Contraband, and Other Illicit Activities 6. From Protection to Protectorate: Justice, Order, and Legal Pluralism 7. Muslim Princes and Trans-Mediterranean Missionaries 8. Where Elites Meet: Households, Harim Visits, and Sea Bathing 9. Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and a Mediterranean Community of Thought Epilogue: Fetched Up on the Maghrib's Shores Notes Glossary Select Bibliography Index

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