Bio

William A. Hoisington, Jr is Professor Emeritus of Modern European and French Colonial History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of two prize-winning books on the history of French imperialism in North Africa, 'The Casablanca Connection: French Colonial Policy, 1936-1943' (North Carolina, 1984), which has been translated into French and Arabic, and 'Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco' (St. Martin's & Macmillan, 1995).