Julia Clancy Smith: 2 books
Tunisian Revolutions
Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and Interiors
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation presented economic and political oppression by the Ben Ali regimes as the root causes of widespread social despair that...
Mediterraneans
North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean. Yet in the nineteenth century thousands of Europeans and others moved south to North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant. This study of a dynamic borderland, the Tunis region, offers the fullest picture to date of the Mediterranean...