North Africa, Revised Edition

Phillip C. Naylor is Professor of History at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he directed the Western Civilization program. His previous books include The Historical Dictionary of Algeria and France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation. He is coeditor of the Journal of North African Studies.

• List of MapsA Note to the ReaderPreface to First EditionPreface to Revised EditionIntroduction1. Ancient North Africa and Its Expansive Civilizations2. Rome and North Africa3. Medieval North Africa: From the Arrival of Islam to the Berber Empires4. The Almoravid and the Almohad Empires and Their Successor States5. Turkish Ascendance and Moroccan Independence6. European Colonialism in North Africa7. The Decolonization of North Africa8. Post-Colonial and Contemporary North Africa: Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia9. Post-Colonial and Contemporary North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, and Western SaharaConclusion. The Peril and Promise of North AfricaAfterword. The North African SpringNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

"North Africa’s story from antiquity onward, Mr. Naylor shows, is one of turbulence, borrowings, exchanges, competition, and cooperation across all manner of barriers, by no means only cultural. . . . [This is] a solid history of a region with whose conflicts we-not to mention the Sahrawis and their neighbors-are fated to contend with for at least a few years still." (Wall Street Journal) "Naylor elegantly leads the reader through the maze of events that have shaped the history of a vast region at the crossroads of civilizations. . . . North Africa is a valuable introduction for students and the general public of an understudied part of the world." (Middle East Journal) "[This book succeeds] in its primary task of ‘locating’ North Africa’s place in the curriculum, and I anticipate that it will become the primary textbook for coursework in this emerging field. The general reader will also be well served by turning to it first for an English-language survey. . . . The specialist of the region . . . will appreciate it when sorting out the complexity of North Africa’s long history, a history few have mastered as well in print as Naylor." (Journal of African History)