Synopses & Reviews
The contributors to this volume critically rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of the Maghrib. Their goal is to explore the ambiguities, failures, and silences manufactured by colonial and nationalist scholarships, and to present alternative strategies and scholarship to the study of history, culture, and state-society relations in the Maghrib during the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite the fact that the contributors come from different disciplines and perspectives—political science, history, or sociology—they share a critical view of the history of the Maghrib, and they approach Maghribi societies not as a footnote to Europe and capitalism, but within its own dynamics.
Review
"This diverse and stimulating collection of essays on North Africa...is a thoughtful and intriguing set of contributions..."
--African Studies Review "The strength of this collection is in its comprehensive approach, embracing as it does the historical, political, and cultural elements..." --Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
"...there is undoubtedly enough here to give students of Maghribi history food for thought."--Arab Studies Journal
Review
"This diverse and stimulating collection of essays on North Africa...is a thoughtful and intriguing set of contributions..."
--African Studies Review "The strength of this collection is in its comprehensive approach, embracing as it does the historical, political, and cultural elements..." --Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
"...there is undoubtedly enough here to give students of Maghribi history food for thought."--Arab Studies Journal
Synopsis
The contributors to this volume critically rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of the Maghrib. Their goal is to explore the ambiguities, failures, and silences manufactured by colonial and nationalist scholarships, and to present alternative strategies and scholarship to the study of history, culture, and state-society relations in the Maghrib during the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite the fact that the contributors come from different disciplines and perspectives—political science, history, or sociology—they share a critical view of the history of the Maghrib, and they approach Maghribi societies not as a footnote to Europe and capitalism, but within its own dynamics.
About the Author
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida is the Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of New England.
Table of Contents
Introduction—Ali Abdullatif Ahmida * Theorizing the History of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Arab Maghrib—Edmund Burke, III * Society, Colonialism and State Formation in Tunisia and Libya—Ali Abdullatif Ahmida * Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Invention of Ancient Egypt—Elliott Cola * The Nation State and the Problem of Frontiers in the Maghrib—Kate Benson * Post-Colonialism and the Study of Arab Folklore—Abdalrahman Ayoub * Oral Traditions and the Reproduction of Colonial Ideology in Algeria * Moroccan Soldiers: Between Selective Memory and Collective Memory—Driss Maghraoui * Islamism and the Recolonization of Algeria—Marnia Lazreg * Economic Reform and Tunisias Hegemonic Party: The End of the Administrative Elite—Stephen J. King * Political Science Without Clothes: The Politics of Dress or Contesting the Spatiality of the State in Egypt—Mamoun Fandy * Gendered Nationalism in the Maghrib—Mona Fayad * Identity, Cultural Encounter, and Alienation in the Trilogy of the Libyan Writer Ahmad Ibrahiim al-Faqih—Ali Abdullatif Ahmida * An Agenda for Future Research—Ali Abdullatif Ahmida