Reseña de Eric Calderwood (2018) - Colonial al-Andalus. Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture. Cambridge (Massachusetts): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Eric Calderwood’s book Colonial al-Andalus is intended to modify the perspective we imagine the relations between Spain and Morocco, between the “modern” (contemporary) and the “medieval”, between the colonial and the anti-colonial. Retracing the critical phases of the encounter/clash between the two shores of the western Mediterranean Sea, the author deconstructs the idea behind the so-called “Andalus-centric” narrative of Moroccan history – namely that the culture of al-Andalus did not disappear with the Christian reconquista of the Iberian peninsula but it “migrated” to Morocco, where it survived up today.