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Article: Morocco under King Hassan.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2008
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Morocco under King Hassan. By Stephen O. Hughes. (Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 385. $34.50.)
British journalist Stephen O. Hughes first arrived in Morocco in 1952 and spent the better part of five decades there. In this fact-filled history, Hughes weighs in on a variety of subjects, peppering his discussions of the economy, political corruption, the status of minorities, and women's rights with knowing, first-person "I was there" anecdotes. Although the thirty-eight-year reign of King Hassan II is Hughes's principal focus, the book's best pages may well be the first hundred, which are devoted to the French protectorate, the independence ...