This text explores the profound changes that have affected social relations in Morocco over the last 150 years, particularly those between the sexes and between linguistic identities and cultures. It provides a portrait of Morocco under colonial and post-colonial leadership.
This text is a portrait of a continent through the author's encounters with African leaders from Zaire to South Africa. Russell recounts meetings with each in an attempt to answer questions of Africa's future: can a new generation of leaders change the future or is Africa doomed to further turmoil?
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. ......
Studies in the Architectural Context of Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions
It is too often forgotten that every Assyrian "historical" inscription functioned in a very specific context. This context influenced its content and the way in which it was perceived by ancient viewers and readers. Russell's goal is to address the reconstruction of the context of these inscriptions in order to elucidate their original impact. In ......
The author analyzes the complex relationship between the coloniser and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine and psychology, she constructs a political and cultural history of the island's relations with France. The text argues that the central ......
An account of the rise of Algerian Islamism from its early days during the 132 years of French colonial rule, its short moment of glory when it seemed about to take power in the late-1980s, and its subsequent crash.
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new Israeli state through their settlements, often becoming the victims ......
Beyond the Battlefield offers a critical reappraisal of Angola's nationalist history by centering the experiences and political agency of women during the country's transition from Portuguese colonial rule to independence. Challenging dominant masculinist narratives that equate anticolonial resistance with armed combat, this study introduces ......
