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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
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 |
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 (xiii, 233 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780813550350 0813550351 1283383225 9781283383226 9786613383228 6613383228 |