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Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956

Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956

Maxwell, Gavin

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0907871143
ISBN13: 9780907871149
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: Dec 20 2016
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of the Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror. On returning from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, T'hami ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be mounted on his gates. Yet in 1956, when the French left Morocco, the Glaoua regime toppled like a pack of cards.

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