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The Invention of the Maghreb - Between Africa and the Middle East (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Invention of the Maghreb - Between Africa and the Middle East (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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