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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 964.04092
Fabric Type: 9780253348159
Fax Number: annotated edition
Legal Disclaimer: 0253348153
Maximum Color Depth: Indiana University Press
Metal Type: Indiana University Press
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 376
Total External Bays Free: October 24, 2006
Total Firewire Ports: Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press
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Product Description:
In the years leading up to World War I, the Great Powers of Europe jostled one another for control over Morocco, the last sovereign nation in North Africa. France beat out its rivals and added Morocco to its vast colonial holdings through the use of diplomatic intrigue and undisguised force. But greed and ambition alone do not explain the complex story of imperialism in its entirety. Amid fears that Morocco was descending into anarchy, Third Republic France justified its bloody conquest through an appeal to a higher ideal. Frances self-proclaimed "civilizing mission" eased some consciences but led to inevitable conflict and tragedy. Murder in Marrakesh relates the story of the early days of the French conquest of Morocco from a new perspective, that of Émile Mauchamp, a young French doctor, his compatriots, and some justifiably angry Moroccans. In 1905, the French foreign ministry sent Mauchamp to Marrakesh to open a charitable clinic. He died there less than two years later at the hands of a mob. Reviled by the Moroccans as a spy, Mauchamp became a martyr for the French. His death, a tragedy for some, created opportunity for others, and set into motion a chain of events that changed Morocco forever. As it reconstructs Mauchamps life, this book touches on many themesmedicine, magic, vengeance, violence, mourning, and memory. It also considers the wedge French colonialism drove between Moroccos Muslims and Jews. This singular episode and compelling human story provides a timely reflection on French-Moroccan relations, colonial pride, and the clash of civilizations.
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The 1907 murder of Emile Mauchamp, a French government-appointed doctor in Marrakesh, means almost nothing these days to the vast majority of French people, let alone foreigners. But it was in certain respects the key incident that triggered France's takeover of Morocco in 1912. Jonathan Katz does a really thorough job in telling the story of the murder, recreating Mauchamp's prickly, arrogant, yet brave character, explaining the French colonial background and Europe's imperialist rivalries, and ... Read More
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Written by Jonathan G. Katz (Professor of History, Oregon State University), Murder in Marrakesh: Emile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure is a chronicle of events leading up to and following the ruthless murder of Emile Mauchamp, a young French doctor serving in Morocco in the years leading up to World War I. Mauchamp, though a dedicated public servant, was also an ardent French patriot; rumors flew about that he was a spy. He was slaughtered by a mob and his possessions plundered; his death ... Read More
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French colonial history is not too well-covered in books I have come across so I jumped at the chance to read this very elegantly printed and presented story of tensions in Marrakesh in the early years of the 20th century. Strongly recommended.
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