North Africa's story from antiquity onward, Mr. Naylor shows, is one of turbulence, borrowings, exchanges, competition, and cooperation across all manner of barriers, by no means only cultural... [This is] a solid history of a region with whose conflicts we-not to mention the Sahrawis and their neighbors-are fated to contend with for at least a few years still. Wall Street Journal Naylor elegantly leads the reader through the maze of events that have shaped the history of a vast region at the crossroads of civilizations... North Africa is a valuable introduction for students and the general public of an understudied part of the world. Middle East Journal [This book succeeds] in its primary task of 'locating' North Africa's place in the curriculum, and I anticipate that it will become the primary textbook for coursework in this emerging field. The general reader will also be well served by turning to it first for an English-language survey... The specialist of the region ... will appreciate it when sorting out the complexity of North Africa's long history, a history few have mastered as well in print as Naylor. Journal of African History