Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844 1886
Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
Reihe: Cambridge Middle East Library
ISBN: 978-0-521-10540-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Essaouira was founded n 1764 by Sultan Sidi Muhammad b. Abdullah as his port for developing trade with Europe. Through a group of Jewish middlemen, it served as a link between Europe, Morocco and su-Saharan Africa. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries its fame rivalled Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers. Based on extensive untapped archive in Morocco, papers of Jewish merchant houses and consular records of Britain, France and the United States, this book gives an account of the city in its heyday. Essaouira was an opening to foreign penetration, but it was also important to the Moroccan government, because potentially dissident regions became tied to its commercial and political activities. The control of the sultans was undermined as foreign powers imposed liberal trade and intervened in Moroccan affairs. This study of a specific city and region throws light on the problems of traditional societies in the age of European economic imperialism.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
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1. Introduction; 2. The royal port; 3. Merchants of the Sultan; 4. Port and bazaar; 5. Beyond the walls; 6. The politics of trade; 7. Foreign intervention and domestic reforms; 8. The struggle for the Southwest; 9. The people of Essaouira in pre-colonial times; 10. The end of an era; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
