The conquest of Morocco
by Douglas Porch
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At the turn of the century, the Arican country closest to Europe geographically was probably the least known. Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, violent and primitive, a place ruled by local warlords out of mud castles, and swept by religious fanaticism. "To strike out from Tangiers," writes Douglas Porch, "was to enter a time capsule -- emperors, slaves, harems, fortified towns, filth, superstition, blood feuds, and barbarism." Yet in the mad scramble for African colonies, backward and poverty-stricken Morocco had one great attraction: it was available. In 1903, with the posting to Africa of one of the oddest of all French military figures, General Hubert Lyautey (royalist, strategist, homosexual), France undertook to change this state of affairs, and by the time World War I broke out the conquest was virtually complete. - Jacket flap.
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The conquest of Morocco
1986, Fromm International Pub. Corp., Distributed by Kampmann & Co.
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The conquest of Morocco
1983, Knopf
Hardcover
in English
- 1st American ed.
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Includes index.
109,992
Bibliography: p. 317-320.
"The bizarre history of France's last great colonial adventure, the long struggle to subdue a medieval kingdom by intrigue and force of arms, 1903-1914" - jacket.
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