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Auteur(s) : Willis, John Matthew (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Unmaking north and south [Texte imprimé] : cartographies of the Yemeni past, 1857-1934 / John M. Willis
Publication : London (GB) : Hurst & Company, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : 1 volume (XV-273 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Références bibliographiques (pages 249-263), index
Unmaking North and South revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction
of Yemen's north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader
context of imperial rule, state formation, and religious reform in the Indian Ocean
arena. The study is centered on the formation of the British Aden Protectorate and
the Zaydi-Shiite Imamate of the Hamid al-Din family in the period between 1857and
1934.Focusing on the British creation of a series of 'native states' on the model
of princely India in the Yemeni south and Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din's formation of a
hybrid state based on Ottoman state forms and Sunni reformist ideology in the north,
the book demonstrates the extent to which Yemen's modern history was rooted both in
the structures of the British Raj and the intellectual debates of the greater Sunni
Muslim world. The book uses a variety of case studies dealing with imperial state
ritual, arms smuggling, cartography and colonial ethnography, debates over the nature
of the Islamic polity, and an undeclared war between the British and the Yemeni Imamate
in order to re-center the history of Yemen in a trans-regional context. Moving deftly
between narratives of the colonial, local, modern, and Islamic, Willis questions the
historical inevitability of the post-colonial Yemeni nation and suggests other modes
of narrating Yemen's contested past
Sujet(s) : Relations extérieures -- Grande-Bretagne -- Yémen -- Histoire
Relations extérieures -- Yémen -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Aden (Yémen ; Protectorat)
Yémen -- 19e siècle
Yémen -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781850659815 (pbk). - ISBN 1850659818 (pbk)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44262254k
Notice n° :
FRBNF44262254
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