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1 online resource (vi, 46 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-45). |
| Contents |
Preludes and Postscripts: Of Baguettes and Social Protest -- Coastalization: Agriculture, Colonialism, and the Granary of Rome -- Coastalization and Globalization: Tourism, Profane and Sacred -- Mediterranean Women, Politics, and Islam -- Mediterranean Games, Politics, and Dissent -- From Sidi Bou Saʻid to Sidi Bouzid: Targets and Symbols. |
| Summary |
"In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian merchant, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation viewed economic and political despair as the root of the Tunisian revolution, but as Julia Clancy-Smith points out, Tunisia's long history of revolutions and protest movements presents a far more complicated set of causes. Proposing a conceptual framework of "coastalization" v. "interiorization," Clancy-Smith examines Tunisia's last two centuries and demonstrates how geographical and environmental and social factors also lie behind that country's volatile history. Within this framework Clancy-Smith explores how Tunisia's coast became a Mediterranean playground for transnational elites, a mecca of tourism, while its interior agrarian regions suffered increasing neglect and marginalization. This distinction has had a profound impact on the fate of Tunisia, and has manifested itself in divisive debates over politics and religion and gender that have lead to a series of mass civic actions that continue to this day. Clancy-Smith proposes a fresh historical lens through which to view the relationship between spacial displacements, regionalization, and transnationalism."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tunisia -- History -- 19th century.
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Tunisia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Tunisia -- History -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Tunisia -- History -- 21st century.
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21st century |
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Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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Tunisians.
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Tunisians. |
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Tunisia -- Politics and government.
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1800-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clancy-Smith, Julia. Tunisian Revolutions : Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and Interiors. Washington : Georgetown University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781626162136 (electronic book) |
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1626162131 (electronic book) |
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