Description
Book SynopsisAs it reconstructs Mauchamp's life, this book touches on many themes - medicine, magic, vengeance, violence, mourning, and memory. It also considers the wedge French colonialism drove between Morocco's Muslims and Jews.
Trade ReviewKatz ought to be commended for his exhaustive survey of French, British, and most significantly Moroccan archives for any piece of information concerning Mauchamp's mission to Marrakesh, his life there, the circumstances of his death, and the aftermath of that affair.
* Middle East Journal *
If historians are detectives following clues of eras past, then Jonathan Katz is the sleuth par excellence of the advent of French colonialism in Morocco.
* Intl. Journal of Middle East Studies 40 (2008) *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Names
List of Principal Characters
Introduction
Part 1. Life
1. Civilization's Martyr
2. The Road to Marrakesh
3. Europeans and Jews
4. A Doctor in Marrakesh
5. False Starts and False Reports
6. March 19, 1907
Part 2. Death
7. In Morocco, No One Dies without a Reason
8. Negotiations
9. The Crisis of the Month
10. Remains of the Day
Conclusion: The Old Morocco
Notes
Bibliography
Index
