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Moroccan Mirages: Agrarian Dreams and Deceptions 1912-1986

Moroccan Mirages: Agrarian Dreams and Deceptions 1912-1986


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Morocco’s future, politically and economically, is threatened by a growing agricultural crisis. Moroccan Mirages locates the roots of this crisis in French dreams for the ‘jewel’ of their colonial empire. It demonstrates that, with disastrous results, contemporary Moroccan leaders are fulfill-ing a colonial vision. Under the guise of national development, they are implementing policies and plans drafted during the protectorate period, pursuing the same misguided and unrealistic goals as the French policymakers. Dr. Swearingen’s perceptive study exposes the supposedly shrewd French colonizers as excessively idealistic and frequently bumbling: they persistently ignored reality and based major policies on little more than popular images of Morocco, such as the ‘Granary of Rome’ or the ‘California of the French Empire.’ Moroccan Mirages explores the politics behind contemporary Morocco’s perpetuation of colonial schemes. It demonstrates that Moroccan elites have acquired most of the former colonial land-holdings and replaced French settlers as the main beneficiaries of government development ef-forts. But having used agricultural policy to win elite support, the government would jeopardize its own existence by implementing the agrarian reform now demanded by agricultural crisis. Moroccan Mirages offers new insights into colonial policymaking and national development processes in former colonies while presenting a trenchant analysis of the creation of today’s agrarian Morocco. It will interest not only Middle East and North African specialists, students of European colonial history, economic policy planners, agricultural historians, and historical geographers, but also readers concerned with Third World development issues.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations. List of Figures. Acknowedgments. NoteonTransliteration. Abbreviations. Introduction. PART I: 1912-1932. 1. In Seach of the Granary of Rome. 2. Not a Drop of Water to the Sea. PART II: THE 1930s. 3. The California Dream. 4. One Million Hectares by the Year 2000. PART III: 1940-1986. 5. Pioneering Morocco's Development Formula. 6. Fulfilling the Colonial Vision. Summary and Conclusion. Epilogue: Policy by Illusion. Sources and Bibliography. Index.

About the Author :
Will D. Swearingen teaches at the University of New Mexico.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781850430711
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: I.B. Tauris
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Weight: 352 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1850430713
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Agrarian Dreams and Deceptions 1912-1986
  • Width: 156 mm


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