Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past (Columbia/Hurst)

by John M. Willis

John M. Willis revisits state formation and religious reform in Yemen during a period of imperialism, transition, and crisis (1857--1934). He focuses specifically on the British Aden Protectorate, which carved a series of "native states" out of Yemen's southern territory based on the princely India model; and the Zaydi-Shiite Imamate of the Hamid al-Din family, which established a hybrid state in the north that combined elements of the Ottoman state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231701314
• ISBN13: 9780231701310
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher