By sword and plow : France and the conquest of Algeria /
In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jen...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the cultural origins of French Algeria
- I. By the sword
- A tale of two despots : the invasion of Algeria and the Revolution of 1830
- Empire of merit : the July monarchy and the Algerian war
- The blood of brothers : Bonapartism and the popular culture of conquest
- II. By the plow
- The empire of virtue : colonialism in the age of abolition
- Selling Algeria : speculation and the colonial landscape
- Settling Algeria : labor, emigration, and citizenship
- Conclusion : politics and empire in nineteenth-century France.