Morocco

From the strait of Gibraltar to the snowy peaks of the Atlas Mountains and the windswept Sahara this book captures a history as diverse and dramatic as Morocco''s legendary landscapes and cities. Beginning with Morocco''s incorporation into the Roman Empire this is a tale of powerful empires fearsome pirates a bloody struggle against colonisation and an equally hard-won independence. It charts Morocco''s uneasy passage to the twenty-first century and reflects on the nation of citizens that is finally emerging from a diverse population of Arabs Berbers and Africans. The story of a country at the crossroads of two continents this history of Morocco provides a glimpse of an imperial world of which only the architectural treasures remain and a profound insight into the economic political and cultural influences that will shape this country''s future. C.R. Pennell is Al-Tajir Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Melbourne in Australia.