COLONIAL AL

Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spains fascists earned their reputation for intoler ance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Francos side in the 1930s. What brought these str ange bedfellows together, Eric Calderwood argues, was a highly effective propaganda weapon: the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, kn own as al-Andalus. This legacy served to justify Spains colonization of Morocco and also to define the Moroccan national culture th at supplant...[Read more]