{"product_id":"colonial-al-andalus-eric-calderwood-9780674980327","title":"Colonial Al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain's fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco's side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric Calderwood argues, was a highly effective propaganda weapon: the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, known as al-Andalus. This legacy served to justify Spain's colonization of Morocco and also to define the Moroccan national culture that supplanted colonial rule. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriters of many political stripes have celebrated \u003ci\u003econvivencia\u003c\/i\u003e, the fabled \"coexistence\" of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Iberia. According to this widely-held view, modern Spain and Morocco are joined through their shared Andalusi past. \u003ci\u003eColonial al-Andalus\u003c\/i\u003e traces this supposedly timeless narrative to the mid-1800s, when Spanish politicians and intellectuals first used it to press for Morocco's colonization. Franco later harnessed \u003ci\u003econvivencia\u003c\/i\u003e to the benefit of Spain's colonial program in Morocco. This shift precipitated an eloquent historical irony. As Moroccans embraced the Spanish insistence on Morocco's Andalusi heritage, a Spanish idea about Morocco gradually became a Moroccan idea about Morocco. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a rich archive of Spanish, Arabic, French, and Catalan sources--including literature, historiography, journalism, political speeches, schoolbooks, tourist brochures, and visual arts--Calderwood reconstructs the varied political career of \u003ci\u003econvivencia\u003c\/i\u003e and al-Andalus, showing how shared pasts become raw material for divergent contemporary ideologies, including Spanish fascism and Moroccan nationalism. \u003ci\u003eColonial al-Andalus\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the limits of simplistic oppositions between European and Arab, Christian and Muslim, that shape current debates about European colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Calderwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674980328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674980327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Eric Calderwood","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946917265663,"sku":"9780674980327","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fd7ea15a-6f2c-4f3f-ac0b-af7fecac3bb8.jpg?v=1681515741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/colonial-al-andalus-eric-calderwood-9780674980327","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}