The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states [[electronic resource] /] / Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457025103321
• Autore: Maddy-Weitzman Bruce
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-292-73478-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 964/.004933
• Soggetti: Berbers - Ethnic identity; Berbers - Politics and government; Nationalism - Morocco; Nationalism - Algeria; Electronic books.; Morocco Politics and government; Algeria Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Origins and conquests : Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, Arabia -- The colonial era -- Morocco and Algeria : state consolidation and Berber "otherness" -- Algerian strife, Moroccan homeopathy, and the emergence of the Amazigh movement -- Berber identity and the international arena -- Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh movement -- Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle alienation -- Conclusion : whither the state, whither the Berbers?.