Book Review: Africa, Tunisia, Government and Politics in Northern Africa
| Date | 01 June 1965 |
| Author | C. F. Gallagher |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206502000231 |
| Published date | 01 June 1965 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
truths
could
be much
extended.
His
assessments
of
people
other
than
his
own
followers
are
equally
one-sided
and usually uncharitable:
Brit-
ish
politicians
and
civil
servants,
Greek
Ministers,
the
Archbishop,
all
are
accused
of
betraying
Cyprus.
Only
one
man
was
infallible:
the
EOKA
Leader, assisted,
he
kindly
tells
us,
by
divine
providence.
Distasteful
both
in
its grisly detail
and
in
the
cumulative
portrait
it
creates
of
the
Leader,
as
a
record
of
the
organization
and
direction
of
a
major
guerrilla war
the
account
must
nevertheless
rank
as
one
of
the
best
of
its
kind.
It
ends
with
the
acclaimed
guerilla
chief
flying
off
to
Athens
in
March
1959
to
receive
the
Grand
Cross
from
King
Paul.
One
recalls
somehow
what
Churchill
once
said about
the
weighty
Cross
of
Lorraine.
The
Archbishop
too
is
fortunate
to
have
such
a
broad back.
University
of
Western Ontario
W.
M.
DOBELL
Africa
TUNIsIA:
The
Politics
of
Modernization.
By
Charles
A.
Micaud,
with
Leon
Carl
Brown
and
Clement
Henry
Moore.
1964.
(New
York:
Frederick
A.
Praeger.
Toronto:
Burns
&
MacEachern.
xiii,
205pp.
$7.25)
GOVERNMENT
AND
PoLrTIcs
IN
NORTHERN
AFRICA.
By
I.
William
Zartman.
1963.
(New
York:
Frederick
A.
Praeger.
Toronto:
Burns
&
Mac-
Eachern.
x,
205pp.
$6.00)
In
the
past
few
years
a
young
group
of
pioneer American
scholars
has
begun
to
produce
a
spate
of
books
dealing with
the
Arab countries
of
Northern
Africa,
an
area
formerly
fenced
off
with
some
exclusivity
by
French
and
occasionally
other
European
academicians.
The
work
of
Micaud,
Brown
and
Moore
falls
squarely
in
this
category as
the
first,
detailed,
critical
study
in
English
of
one
especially
important
country
of
the
region. Tunisia,
as
the
authors
point
out,
receives
more foreign
economic
aid
per
capita
than
any
other
developing
nation
at
this time.
The
authors
divide
up
their
task
into
three
sections
which
are
essentially
historical,
political
and
developmental.
Although modern
Tunisia
is
generally
considered
the
product
of
a
man
and
a
party-
Bourguiba
and
the
neo-Destour-Brown
rightly
underlines
the
import-
ance
of
political
innovation
and
development beginning
in
some
cases
a
century
ago.
Such
were
the
reforms
in
the
1860's
and
1870's
before
the
French
protectorate
was
established,
the
arrival
of
a
large
number
of
European
settlers
by
the
early
part
of
this
century,
and
the
reaction
of
a
whole
generation
of
"Young
Tunisians"
which produced
the
first
political
stirrings
in
the
country
before
the
First
World
War.
The
historical
background
to
the formation
of
a
modern
political
style
in
Tunisia gets
good
treatment
here.
Moore
devotes
his
section
to
chronicling
the
emergence
of
the
neo-
Destour
Party,
the
only
truly
mass-supported
political
organism
in
any
Arab
country.
He
indicates
its
role
in
winning
independence,
shaping
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