The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states
By: Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780292725874
Subjects: Politics and government; Ethnic identity; Nationalism; Berbers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and conquests : Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, Arabia; title: The colonial era; title: Morocco and Algeria : state consolidation and Berber "otherness"; title: Algerian strife, Moroccan homeopathy, and the emergence of the Amazigh movement; title: Berber identity and the international arena; title: Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh movement; title: Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle alienation; title: Conclusion : whither the state, whither the Berbers?