"A rich investigation into Morocco's urban politics Over the past thirty years, Morocco's cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one example, Casablanca's medina is now obscured behind skyscrapers that are funded by global capital and encouraged by Morocco's monarchy, which hopes to...

Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Romanization and Chinese units of measurement -- "Becoming global" : Yantian village in context -- Economic management and economic organization -- "Cleaning their feet" : the decline of an agricultural village -- "Building nests to...