Maghrib in Question: Essays in History and Historiography FROM THE PUBLISHER
A Wealth of Historical writing dealing with the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) has been published during the roughly forty years since European colonial control ended in the region. This book provides a "state of the field" survey of this postcolonial Maghribi historiography. The book contains thirteen essays by leading Maghribi and North American scholars. The first section surveys the Maghrib as a whole; the second focuses on individual countries of the Maghrib; and the third explores theoretical issues and case studies. Cutting across chronological categories, the book encompasses historiographical writing dealing with all eras, from the ancient Maghrib to the contemporary period.
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Historians from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the US overview the
historiography in the region since the countries gained independence
about 40 years ago. They consider writings on all periods from
ancient through medieval and early modern to the present. Among their
topics are recent trends in the study of modern North African
history, Algerian scholarly and political views of Algerian
nationalism, and the Maghrib and the Mediterranean world in the 19th
century. No index.
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