Table of Contents

• List of Maps
• A Note to the Reader
• Preface to First Edition
• Preface to Revised Edition
• Introduction
• 1. Ancient North Africa and Its Expansive Civilizations
• 2. Rome and North Africa
• 3. Medieval North Africa: From the Arrival of Islam to the Berber Empires
• 4. The Almoravid and the Almohad Empires and Their Successor States
• 5. Turkish Ascendance and Moroccan Independence
• 6. European Colonialism in North Africa
• 7. The Decolonization of North Africa
• 8. Post-Colonial and Contemporary North Africa: Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia
• 9. Post-Colonial and Contemporary North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, and Western Sahara
• Conclusion. The Peril and Promise of North Africa
• Afterword. The North African Spring
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Phillip C. Naylor is Professor of History at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he directed the Western Civilization program. His previous books include The Historical Dictionary of Algeria and France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation. He is coeditor of the Journal of North African Studies.

Reviews

North Africa's story from antiquity onward, Mr. Naylor shows, is one of turbulence, borrowings, exchanges, competition, and cooperation across all manner of barriers, by no means only cultural... [This is] a solid history of a region with whose conflicts we - not to mention the Sahrawis and their neighbors - are fated to contend with for at least a few years still.Naylor elegantly leads the reader through the maze of events that have shaped the history of a vast region at the crossroads of civilizations... North Africa is a valuable introduction for students and the general public of an understudied part of the world.