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Murder in Marrakesh : Emile Mauchamp and the French colonial adventure / Jonathan G. Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Jonathan Glustrom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--France.
- Physicians.
- French--Morocco.
- French.
- Mauchamp, Emile, 1870-1907--Death and burial.
- Mauchamp, Emile.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""In Morocco, nobody dies without a reason."" -- Susan Gilson Miller, Harvard UniversityIn the years leading up to World War I, the Great Powers of Europe jostled one another for control over Morocco, the last sovereign nation in North Africa. France beat out its rivals and added Morocco to its vast colonial holdings through the use of diplomatic intrigue and undisguised force. But greed and ambition alone do not explain the complex story of imperialism in its entirety. Amid fears that Morocco w
- Contents:
- Civilization's martyr
- The road to Marrakesh
- Europeans and Jews
- A doctor in Marrakesh
- False starts and false reports
- March 19, 1907
- In Morocco, no one dies without a reason
- Negotiations
- The crisis of the month
- Remains of the day.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-347) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07547-0
- 9786612075476
- 0-253-11233-8
- OCLC:
- 632700734
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