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Tunisian Revolutions : reflections on seas, coasts, and interiors /

"In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian merchant, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation viewed economic and political despair as the root of the Tunisian revolution, but as Julia Clancy-Smith points o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann (Author)
Corporate Author: Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : Georgetown University Press, [2014]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preludes and Postscripts: Of Baguettes and Social Protest
  • Coastalization: Agriculture, Colonialism, and the Granary of Rome
  • Coastalization and Globalization: Tourism, Profane and Sacred
  • Mediterranean Women, Politics, and Islam
  • Mediterranean Games, Politics, and Dissent
  • From Sidi Bou Saʻid to Sidi Bouzid: Targets and Symbols.