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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
In this fascinating and immensely readable book the author seeks to outline some of the social and economic changes that have taken place in Morocco between the establishment of the French Protectorate and the present day. This he attempts to do by describing the traditional background and the personal experiences of an individual Berber, a grocer from the valley of the Sous in southern Morocco who, under the pseudonym of Hadj Brahim, is allowed to do a good deal of the talking himself. In a series of vivid and often amusing reminis- cences he tells how he started work in his uncle's shop in Tangier in 1925, fought against the French invaders of his native valley in 1934, set up his own groc...