Colin McLaughlin’s Reviews > Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity > Status Update

Imagined or selective histories in Algeria (Similar to Greek history ignoring Byzantines, ignoring Arab) and Morocco allowed the French to pretend to defend a traditional state. Instead, ethno/religious separation and investment only in European areas, while raising concerns in underfunded desertification poor lands for Moroccans. Monopoly on Fertilizer, Casablanca a European, not natural port.

Have learned a lot about Moroccan governance in the pre-colonial period. Lots of poli-sci legitimacy, not a westphalian state. Core-periphery relations, recognized government that works with key stakeholders, doesn't command them.