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The politics of food in modern Morocco /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holden, Stacy E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
Subjects:
Nationalism > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Power (Social sciences) > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Social classes > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Islam and politics > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Nutrition policy > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Hunger > Political aspects > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Food supply > Political aspects > Morocco > History > 20th century.
Morocco > Social conditions > 20th century.
Morocco > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Morocco > Politics and government > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Food and politics in the Arab-Islamic world
  • pt. 1. The more things change--
  • The political economy of Moroccan hunger
  • Industrialism and participatory politics at the water mill
  • Commerce and class tensions at the butcher shop
  • pt. 2.
  • the more they stay the same
  • The economic and political order of colonial Morocco
  • The colonial preservation of the miller's trade
  • Fiscal politics at the municipal slaughterhouse
  • pt. 3. Continuity and change
  • Struggles for scarce resources in the 1930s
  • Famine and the emergence of popular nationalism
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary.