Robert E. Handloff, ed. Mauritania: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress,
1988.
Acknowledgments
Preface
History
EARLY HISTORY
SANHADJA CONFEDERATION
ALMORAVIDS
SUDANIC EMPIRES AND KINGDOMS
ARAB INVASIONS
EARLY EUROPEAN CONTACTS
FRENCH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION
Pacification
French Colonial Policy
French Administration Through World War II
Postwar Reforms
The Road to Independence
INDEPENDENCE AND CIVILIAN RULE
CONFLICT IN THE WESTERN SAHARA
Background to Mauritanian Policy
Fighting the Desert War
Military Withdrawal from the Western Sahara
DOWNFALL OF OULD SALEK
THE HAIDALLA REGIME
Geography
Geographic and Climatic Zones
Expansion of the Desert
Society
POPULATION
ETHNIC GROUPS AND LANGUAGES
Maures
Zenaga
Black Africans
Toucouleur
Fulbe
Soninké
Wolof
Bambara
RELIGION
Islam
Brotherhoods and Saints
CHANGING SOCIAL PATTERNS
EDUCATION
HEALTH AND WELFARE
The Economy
ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT
FISHING
MINING
THE RURAL ECONOMY
Herding
Farming
INDUSTRY
BANKING
Government
POLITICAL CULTURE
GOVERNMENTAL POWER
Constitution
Constitutional Charter
Legal System
Local Government
Local Elections
POLITICAL POWER IN THE MID-1980s
INTEREST GROUPS
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Foreign Policy
France
Morocco
United States
Bibliography
Country Studies Index
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