Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria

by Hugh Roberts

Book Overview

The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a mountainous region in northern Algeria. The political organisation of pre-colonial Kabylia, from which these traditions originate, was well-described by nineteenth-century French...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784537667
• ISBN13: 9781784537661
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"