| Description | Two boxes containing drafts, notes and papers showing the development of Bidwell's book 'Morocco: The Traveller's Companion' (1992) from an original plan for a book entitled 'Morocco through Western Eyes' that include a much more detailed chronological history of Morocco. The text was written for a general audience and draws extensively on the travel accounts of western visitors, and it seems that Bidwell later dropped the chronological history and reworked much of the material into a more thematic structure for 'Morocco: The Traveller's Companion' (IB Tauris, 1992) which was co-written with his wife Margaret. Publisher's correspondence with Macmillan Press (1988) and editor Judy Mabro (1992) show how the book proposal and text were amended over several years, from the original plan (below) to a more thematic structure that was closer to the one eventually published in 1992.
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Beginnings
Chapter 2 The Bani Saad Dynasty
Chapter 3 The First Two Alawites
Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century
Chapter 5 The West Increases Interest in Morocco, 1792-1874
Chapter 6 Mulai Hassan 1873-1894
Chapter 7 Mulai Abd Al-Aziz 1894-1908
Chapter 8 Mulai Hafid 1908-1912
Chapter 9 The Makhzan/ The Grand Wazirs
Chapter 10 The Moroccan Army and Navy
Chapter 11 Government Finance and Taxation
Chapter 12 Provincial Government
Chapter 13 The Fall of the Moroccan Government
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