Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past

John M. Willis

"This book puts forth a stimulating and suggestive account of the history of early twentieth-century Yemen. Its strength lies in it weaving of the colonial, local, modern, and Islamic and in its effective deployment of a comparative analysis that works back and forth between the British Protectorate in the south and the independent Imamate in the north. The work contains a richly textured array of local case studies, a sprinkling of social theory, and analysis of a number of Arabic textual sources, as well as utilizing colonial archives." — Thomas Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley

Related Subjects

• Middle East Studies

About the Author

John M. Willis is assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado.

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