Ebook: Berber government: the Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria

Considering Kabylia -- Economy and forms of settlement -- Kabyle Law -- The Kabyle polity -- Pre-colonial Kabylia and the regency: religion and political development, 1509-1639 -- The rise and fall of the Lords of Koukou -- The reconstitution of greater Kabylia after 1640 -- Trancending Kabylia: the constitutional tradition and the exceptional tradition.;Explores the political structures and processes of the Kabyles and also examines the organisation of the Kabyle polity and its intricate frameworks of law, political representation and self-government. Provides an in-depth historical explanation of the Kabyle polity as it existed at the moment of the French conquest of the region in 1857.