Arabs of the Jewish Faith : The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria /
Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actua...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2010]
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Colección: | Jewish Cultures of the World
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Sumario: | Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 p.) : 5 illustrations. |
ISBN: | 9780813550350 9783110688610 |
Acceso: | restricted access |