Notes on Illustrations and Transcription

Maps were produced by Sébastien Herman. I am thankful to the Glycines, the ANOM, and the BNF for giving permission to reproduce works as illustrations. For one of the illustrations, a poster by the algérois artist Charles Brouty, I have been unable to find the claimants to his estate, but I encourage them to get in touch. All translations are my own unless specified. Any work of North African history has to struggle between different spelling norms, between a transcription that follows the French norm or the modern Arabic one. For consistency, I have generally used the contemporary French spelling of towns, people, and administrative concepts, while indicating the alternative name in brackets when they are first mentioned (e.g. Bône [Annaba]). The exception is concepts, places, and people which are more familiar to English-speaking audiences in their Arabic spelling, like qa’id, ulama, and shaykh (rather than caïd, ouléma, and cheikh). Publications raise special difficulties: periodicals in Arabic might be more easily accessed in catalogues using their French spelling. For this reason, I have usually referred to them by their Arabic spelling (Al-Shihab rather than Ech-Chiheb), while keeping the French spelling for those published in French even if the title itself is an Arabic word (e.g. El Hack and not Al-Haqq), but have named the alternative spelling the first time I mention them for greater ease.

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