BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 EARLY HISTORY -- EARLY HUMANS AND STONE AGE SOCIETY -- THE CARTHAGINIAN PERIOD -- THE PHOENICIAN SETTLEMENTS -- CARTHAGINIAN SUPREMACY -- TRADE -- WARS OUTSIDE AFRICA -- TREATMENT OF SUBJECT PEOPLES -- POLITICAL AND MILITARY INSTITUTIONS -- THE CITY -- RELIGION AND CULTURE -- CARTHAGE AND ROME -- THE GREEKS IN CYRENAICA -- THE RISE AND DECLINE OF NATIVE KINGDOMS -- CHAPTER 2 ROMAN NORTH AFRICA -- ADMINISTRATION AND DEFENSE -- THE GROWTH OF URBAN LIFE -- ECONOMY -- LATER ROMAN EMPIRE -- CHRISTIANITY AND THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY -- EXTENT OF ROMANIZATION -- THE VANDAL CONQUEST -- THE BYZANTINE PERIOD -- ROMAN CYRENAICA -- CHAPTER 3 FROM THE ARAB CONQUEST TO 1830 -- KHARIJITE BERBER RESISTANCE TO ARAB RULE -- THE MAGHRIB UNDER MUSLIM DYNASTIES IN THE 8TH-11TH CENTURIES -- THE RUSTAMID STATE OF TAHART -- THE BANU MIDRAR OF SIJILMASSAH -- THE IDRISIDS OF FEZ -- THE AGHLABIDS -- THE FATIMIDS AND ZIRIDS -- THE MAGHRIB UNDER THE ALMORAVIDS AND THE ALMOHADS -- POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION AND THE TRIUMPH OF ISLAMIC CULTURE (C. 1250-C. 1500) -- THE MAGHRIB FROM ABOUT 1500 TO 1830 -- MOROCCO UNDER SHARIFIAN DYNASTIES -- OTTOMAN RULE IN THE MAGHRIB -- CHAPTER 4 NORTH AFRICA AFTER 1830 -- ADVENT OF EUROPEAN COLONIALISM -- NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS -- CHAPTER 5 ALGERIA -- EARLY HISTORY -- FRENCH ALGERIA -- THE CONQUEST OF ALGERIA -- COLONIAL RULE -- NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS -- WORLD WAR II AND THE MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE -- THE ALGERIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE -- INDEPENDENT ALGERIA -- FROM BEN BELLA TO BOUMEDIENNE -- BENDJEDID'S MOVE TOWARD DEMOCRACY -- CIVIL WAR: THE ISLAMISTS VERSUS THE ARMY -- FOREIGN RELATIONS -- CHAPTER 6 EGYPT -- EARLY HISTORY THROUGH THE 19TH CENTURY -- BRITISH OCCUPATION -- CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY -- THE REPUBLIC -- THE FIRST DECADES -- THE REPUBLIC IN THE 1970S AND '80S.

THE REPUBLIC SINCE THE 1980S -- CHAPTER 7 LIBYA -- EARLY HISTORY -- OTTOMAN RULE -- ITALIAN COLONIZATION -- INDEPENDENCE -- THE DISCOVERY OF OIL -- THE QADDAFI REGIME -- CHAPTER 8 MOROCCO -- EARLY HISTORY -- DECLINE OF TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT -- THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE -- WORLD WAR II AND INDEPENDENCE -- THE FRENCH ZONE -- THE SPANISH ZONE -- INDEPENDENT MOROCCO -- FOREIGN POLICY -- WESTERN SAHARA -- HASSAN'S LAST YEARS -- INTO THE 21ST CENTURY -- CHAPTER 9 SUDAN -- ANCIENT NUBIA -- EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE -- THE KINGDOM OF KUSH -- CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC INFLUENCE -- MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS -- ISLAMIC ENCROACHMENTS -- THE FUNJ -- THE SPREAD OF ISLAM -- EGYPTIAN-OTTOMAN RULE -- MUHAMMAD 'ALI AND HIS SUCCESSORS -- ISMA'IL PASHA AND THE GROWTH OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE -- THE MAHDIYYAH -- THE REIGN OF THE KHALIFAH -- THE BRITISH CONQUEST -- THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN CONDOMINIUM -- THE EARLY YEARS OF BRITISH RULE -- THE GROWTH OF NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS -- THE REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN -- THE 'ABBUD GOVERNMENT -- SUDAN SINCE 1964 -- CHAPTER 10 TUNISIA -- EARLY HISTORY -- THE GROWTH OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE -- THE PROTECTORATE -- WORLD WAR II -- INDEPENDENCE -- DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENT -- FOREIGN RELATIONS -- CHAPTER 11 WESTERN SAHARA -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.