The Decolonization of North African History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Wansbrough |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 643-650 |
| Publication date | 1968-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700009099 |
| OpenAlex | W1971138049 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 3 |
Since independence the countries of North Africa have been occupied almost exclusively with the establishment of a new society. An important part of this activity has been directed towards a solution to the problem of symbols and values: the construction of an image of themselves for their own contemplation and for export to the world outside. One aspect of this general problem of acculturation is concerned with interpretations of history and the evaluation of one's own place in historical evolution. Starting from the premiss that North African history has largely been a monopoly of French scholarship since 1830, contemporary historical writers in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco have found it essential, before entering upon problems of historical interpretation, to rewrite their own history. Discovery of this first requisite has generated a spirit shared by all those writers preoccupied with this problem, however much they might disagree on solutions to it, which is best expressed by the phrase ‘décoloniser l'histoire’. The subject is vast, and I should like here only to indicate several of the problems, with their proposed solutions, so far treated by writers dealing with the history of Algeria
Contemplation · Decolonization · Epistemology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Historiography · Independence (probability theory · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Phrase · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy
On Recomposing the Islamic History of North Africa
Ibadi Muslims of North Africa
The western Maghrib and Sudan
The East African interior
Eastern Africa
The central Sahara and Sudan
Africa in Europe and the Americas
The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean
The Guinea coast
Upper and Lower Guinea
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan
We've never had a voice'
« Soi-même » comme un « autre ». Les histoires coloniales d'Ahmad Tawfîq al-Madanî (1899-1983)
Sharpening the Boundaries of Community
The Cambridge History of Africa
Problems in the Interpretation of the History of the Maghrib in the Light of some Recent Publications
The Future behind the Mountains and the Sand Dunes
Remettre l'Algérie à l'heure ottomane. Questions d'historiographie
Towards a history of the Maghrib
Recent books on colonial Algerian history
African Historical Studies Academic Knowledge as 'Usable Past' and Radical Scholarship
Pacific history ‐ past, present and future
The Colonial Pasts of Medieval Texts in Northern Africa
Reflections on North African History
The Colonial Period in the Maghrib and its Aftermath
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Roman and Modern Imperialism
Cezayir-i Garp
The way of the nomad
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.54 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2024 (56) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |