Homi Bhabha’s Cultural Hybridity and Early Twentieth Century Modifications of Fez, Morocco


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How does the concept of hybridity relevant to the history of electricity in the French colonial old city of Fez, Morocco (1912-56)? What were the historic glass electric fixture designs? This essay aims to answer these questions based on archival documents and photographs. 37 pages long, 8 black and white and color images. Key Words: history of technology, electricity, electrical infrastructure, electric power, French Colonial, Fez, old city, Morocco, globalization, cosmopolitanism available at https://gumroad.com/l/DfkkT and https://gum.co/DfkkT




Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco


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At last we are beginning to learn as much about the French empire as the British, so that generalizations about imperialism need not continue to be skewed, as they hav,e been in the past, by drawing too many of our data from the British experience. The present study makes a major contribution in this direction, providing as it does the first nearly definitive account of a central series of episodes in the French, African, and Islamic experiences with imperialism.




Morocco Under Colonial Rule


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This evaluation of the work of a colonial administration uses an analysis of the policies employed in the fields of education, administration, justice and agriculture. It shows how a largely archaic and isolated country transformed itself and its relationship with the western world.







Negotiating the City


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Resistance in the Desert


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This work, first published in 1977, is a study of African responses to European conquest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book examines the decades of French conquest as an episode in African, rather than European, colonial or military history.







Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s


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Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.




Violence and Colonial Order


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A striking new interpretation of colonial policing and political violence in three empires between the two world wars.