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Author:   Patricia Lorcin (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781138931961

ISBN 10:   1138931969
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   04 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction 1. The elegant plume: ostrich feathers, African commercial networks, and European capitalism 2. The trans-Saharan slave trade in the context of Tunisian foreign trade in the western Mediterranean 3. Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti and his Islamic critique of racial slavery in the Maghrib 4. A Timbuktu bibliophile between the Mediterranean and the Sahel: Ahmad Bul’arāf and the circulation of books in the first half of the twentieth century 5. Full circle: Muslim women’s education from the Maghrib to America and back 6. The diaspora and the cemetery: emigration and social transformation in a Moroccan oasis community 7. Beur/Maghribi musical interventions in France: rai and rap

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Patricia Lorcin is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA. She is the author of Imperial Identities and Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia, four edited or co-edited volumes, two special issues and numerous articles. Her present project is tentatively entitled The Cold War, Art, Politics and Transnational Activism in the era of Decolonization.

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