Parution : M’hamed Oualdi, A Slave Between Empires. A Transimperial History of North Africa, Columbia University Press, Febr 2020

A Slave Between Empires investigates Husayn’s transimperial life and the posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational dimensions of North African history. M’hamed Oualdi places Husayn within the international context of the struggle between Ottoman and French forces for control of the Mediterranean amid social and intellectual ferment that crossed empires. Oualdi considers this part of the world not as a colonial borderland but as a central space where overlapping imperial ambitions transformed dynamic societies. He explores how the transition between Ottoman rule and European colonial domination was felt in the daily lives of North African Muslims, Christians, and Jews and how North Africans conceived of and acted upon this shift. Drawing on a wide range of Arabic, French, Italian, and English sources, A Slave Between Empires is a groundbreaking transimperial microhistory that demands a major analytical shift in the conceptualization of North African history.
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (17 février 2020). Parution : M’hamed Oualdi, A Slave Between Empires. A Transimperial History of North Africa, Columbia University Press, Febr 2020. IISMM. Consulté le 16 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/q18d