The Southern Shores of the
Mediterranean and its Networks
The majority of scholarly conceptions of the Mediterranean focus on the seas northern shores, with its historical epicentres of Spain, France or Italy. This book seeks to demonstrate the importance of economic, political and cultural networks emanating from the Mediterraneans lesser-studied southern shores. The various chapters emphasise the activities that made connections between the southern shores, sub-Saharan Africa, the lands along its northern shores, and beyond to the United States. In doing so, the book avoids a Eurocentric approach and details the importance of the players and regions of the southern hinterland, in the analysis of the Mediterranean space. The cultural aspects of the North African countries, be they music, literature, film, commerce or political activism, continue to transform the public spheres of the countries along the northern shores of the Mediterranean and beyond to the whole of the European continent. In its focus on the often overlooked North African shore, the work is an innovative contribution to the historiography of the Mediterranean region.
This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of North African Studies.
Patricia M.E. 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.
The Southern Shores of the
Mediterranean and its Networks
Knowledge, trade, culture and people
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Patricia M.E. Lorcin
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Contents
Patricia M.E. Lorcin
Aomar Boum and Michael Bonine
Ismael M. Montana
Timothy Cleaveland
Shamil Jeppie
Beverly Mack
Paul A. Silverstein
Ted Swedenburg
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Introduction
Patricia M.E. Lorcin
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 14
Chapter 1
The elegant plume: ostrich feathers, African commercial networks, and European capitalism
Aomar Boum and Michael Bonine
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 526
Chapter 2
The trans-Saharan slave trade in the context of Tunisian foreign trade in the western Mediterranean
Ismael M. Montana
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 2741
Chapter 3
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti and his Islamic critique of racial slavery in the Maghrib
Timothy Cleaveland
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 4264
Chapter 4
A Timbuktu bibliophile between the Mediterranean and the Sahel: Ahmad Bularf and the circulation of books in the first half of the twentieth century
Shamil Jeppie
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 6577
Chapter 5
Full circle: Muslim womens education from the Maghrib to America and back
Beverly Mack
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 7891
Chapter 6
The diaspora and the cemetery: emigration and social transformation in a Moroccan oasis community
Paul A. Silverstein
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 92108
Chapter 7
Beur/Maghribi musical interventions in France: rai and rap
Ted Swedenburg
The Journal of North African Studies, volume 20, issue 1 (January 2015) pp. 109126
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Michael Bonine was Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Geography, and founding Director of the School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, until his death in 2011.
Aomar Boum is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. His research is concerned with the social and cultural representation of, and political discourse about, religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East and North Africa.
Timothy Cleaveland is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. His book, Becoming Walata: A History of Saharan Social Formation and Transformation, was published in 2001.
Shamil Jeppie is Director and Associate Professor at the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of Language, Identity, Modernity (2007), the editor of the journal History in Africa, and the books The Struggle for District Six (1990), Towards New Histories for South Africa (2004) and The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008).
Patricia M.E. 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
