A History Of Modern Tunisia
by Kenneth Perkins /
2014 / English / PDF
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Kenneth Perkins's second edition of A History of Modern Tunisia,
updated with a new chapter, carries the history of this country
from 2004 to the present, with particular emphasis on the Tunisian
revolution of 2011 - the first critical event of that year's Arab
Spring and the inspiration for similar populist movements across
the Arab world. After providing an overview of the country in the
years preceding the inauguration of a French protectorate in 1881,
the book examines the impact of colonialism on the country, with
particular attention to the evolution of a nationalist movement
that secured the termination of the protectorate in 1956. Its
analysis of the first three decades of independence, during which
the leaders of the anticolonial struggle consolidated political
power, formulated a series of economic strategies, and promoted a
social and cultural agenda calculated to modernize both state and
society, assesses the challenges that they faced and the degree of
success they achieved. The final chapter brings the book up to the
present, examining the 2011 revolution and Tunisia's part in the
Arab Spring. No other English-language study of Tunisia offers as
sweeping a time frame or as comprehensive a history of this nation.
Kenneth Perkins's second edition of A History of Modern Tunisia,
updated with a new chapter, carries the history of this country
from 2004 to the present, with particular emphasis on the Tunisian
revolution of 2011 - the first critical event of that year's Arab
Spring and the inspiration for similar populist movements across
the Arab world. After providing an overview of the country in the
years preceding the inauguration of a French protectorate in 1881,
the book examines the impact of colonialism on the country, with
particular attention to the evolution of a nationalist movement
that secured the termination of the protectorate in 1956. Its
analysis of the first three decades of independence, during which
the leaders of the anticolonial struggle consolidated political
power, formulated a series of economic strategies, and promoted a
social and cultural agenda calculated to modernize both state and
society, assesses the challenges that they faced and the degree of
success they achieved. The final chapter brings the book up to the
present, examining the 2011 revolution and Tunisia's part in the
Arab Spring. No other English-language study of Tunisia offers as
sweeping a time frame or as comprehensive a history of this nation.