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Author Hannoum, Abdelmajid, 1960- author.

Title The invention of the Maghreb : between Africa and the Middle East / Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 320 pages)
Contents Geographic Imagination and Cartographic Power -- The Trace and Its Narratives -- Language, Race, and Territory -- Naming and Historical Narratives -- Strategies for the Present -- Cracks
Summary Under French colonial rule, the region of the Maghreb emerged as distinct from two other geographical entities that, too, are colonial inventions: the Middle East and Africa. In this book, Abdelmajid Hannoum demonstrates how the invention of the Maghreb started long before the conquest of Algiers and lasted until the time of independence, and beyond, to our present. Through an interdisciplinary study of French colonial modernity, Hannoum examines how colonialism made extensive use of translations of Greek, Roman, and Arabic texts and harnessed high technologies of power to reconfigure the region and invent it. In the process, he analyzes a variety of forms of colonial knowledge including historiography, anthropology, cartography, literary work, archaeology, linguistics, and racial theories. He shows how local engagement with colonial politics and its modes of knowledge were instrumental in the modern making of the region, including in its postcolonial era, as a single unit divorced from Africa and from the Middle East
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Vendor-supplied metadata
Subject Decolonization -- Africa
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Colonial influence
Decolonization
French colonies
Historiography
SUBJECT Africa, North -- History -- 19th century
Africa, North -- History -- Historiography
France -- Colonies -- Africa, North -- History
Africa, North -- Colonial influence
Africa, North -- History -- 1882- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001642
Africa, North -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001638
Subject Africa
North Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108937337
1108937330