Description
History of North Africa seeks to trace the history of the area during the 19th and 20th centuries by connecting it to its pre-colonial past. The course is informed by the theoretical and conceptual tools of social and cultural history, anthropology and literary theory. Taking into consideration the political and economic history of North African societies since the advent of colonialism to the present, this course will also attempt to deal with the social and cultural history of ordinary people and the way they were affected by different historical forces. The course is intended to introduce the students to new ways of how to start conceiving the history of the Maghreb from a “bottom up†perspective.
The course deal with three broadly conceived periods: the precolonial, colonial and post-colonial history of North Africa. After an overview of the precolonial period, the course will concentrate mainly on the colonial and postcolonial periods. The students will be introduced to themes.