University of Botswana History Department

H407: HISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA since 1800
Course description: August 1999

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Lecture & tutorial periods:


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Course lecturer:

Prof. NEIL PARSONS || Email: nparsons@mopipi... [Click here for full email address]
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Course outline:

This survey course begins with the geographical environment, Islamization and Arabization of North Africa before 1800. Main themes in the 19th-20th centuries include:

At least one North African state should be selected for special study by individual students.


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H407 Topic Schedule


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Internet Web-Sites

What follows is a basic list of resources, which will give you many more "Links" to discover more Web-Sites. New sites are constantly appearing, while some old ones wither away and disappear:


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PRESCRIBED TEXTS:


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BOOKS IN UB LIBRARY:

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NORTH AFRICA: GENERAL LITERATURE

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Some review articles in periodicals

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Chapters on North Africa in:

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Other relevant general books:

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ALGERIA

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EGYPT

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MOROCCO

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TUNISIA

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LIBYA

  • E1. Anderson, Lisa. The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya 1830- 1980 Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986.
  • E2. Alan, J.A. Libya: the Experience of Oil, London and Colorado, 1981.
  • E3. Anderson, L., The State and Social Transformation in tunisia and Libya, 1830- 1980, Princeton, 1986.
  • E4. Ayoub, M.M. Islam and the Third Universal theory, London, 1987.
  • E5. Bearman, J., Qaddafigs Libya, London, 1986.
  • E6. Blundy, D., and Lycett, A., Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution, London, 1987.
  • E7. Cachia, A.J., Libya under the second Ottoman Occupation (1835-1911),Tripoli, 1945.
  • E8. Deeb, M.K. and M.J., Libya since the Revolution, London, 1982.
  • E9. Evans - Pritchard, E.E., The Sanusi of Cyrenaica, Oxford, 1948.
  • E10 Fathaly, O.I. El, and Palmer, M., Political Development and Social Change in Libya, Massachusetts, 1980.
  • E11 First, R., Libya the elusive revolution, London, 1974.
  • E12 Gifford, P., and Louis, W.R., eds, Decolonisation and African Independence, New Haven, 1988, ch. by Louis.
  • E13 Hahn, L., Historical Dictionary of Libya, Metuchen, N.J. and London, 1981.
  • E14 Harris, L.C., Libya: Qadhafi's revolution and the modern state, London, 1986.
  • E15 Lawson, D., Libya and Qaddafi, 2nd ed., New York, 1987.
  • E16 Lemarchand, R., ed., The Green and the Black: Qadhafi's politices in Africa, Bloomington, 1988.
  • E17 Louis, R., The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951, Oxford, 1984
  • E18 Moore, M., The Fourth Shore: Italy's mass colonisation of Libya, London 1940.
  • E19 Pelt, A., Libyan Independence and the United Nations: A case of planned decolonisation, New Haven and London, 1970.
  • E20 Qaddafi, M., The Green Book.
  • E21 Segre, C.G., Fourth Shore: The Italian Colonisation of Libya, Chicago and London, 1974.
  • E22 Wright, J., Libya, London, 1969
  • E23 Wright, J., Libya: a Modern History, London and Camberra, 1982.

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    WESTERN SAHARA

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    REPUBLIC OF SUDAN


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    Copyright © 1999 Neil Parsons
    Last updated 7 September 1999