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Centring the periphery: northern Morocco as a hub of transnational anti-colonial activism, 1930–43*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

David Stenner
David Stenner*
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Department of History, Christopher Newport University, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

During the interwar years, Moroccan anti-colonial activists organized a propaganda campaign abroad to discredit the French and Spanish protectorates that had been established in 1912. Yet it was not the famous nationalist leaders from the country’s major urban centres but a small group from the marginalized northern city of Tetuan that played a pivotal role in the internationalization of the Moroccan question. This article demonstrates that, by analysing the emergence of Morocco’s nationalist movement through a transnational framework, rather than within the confines of the nation-state, we can rearrange the geographical and political hierarchies of local history as previously disregarded individuals and locations suddenly emerge to the forefront of the narrative.

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colonialismdecolonizationMoroccoperipherytransnationalism
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Journal of Global History , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 430 - 450
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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Footnotes

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I thank Stacy Fahrenthold, Omnia El Shakry, Jonathan Wyrtzen, Susan G. Miller, and the editors and two anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Global History for providing valuable feedback at various stages of this project. Funding was provided by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, the Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the France–Berkeley Fund, and the Department of History at UC Davis.

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