The military and colonial destruction of the Roman landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 /

The French pursued victory and colonisation amid a Roman landscape little affected down the centuries by local inhabitants. In the space of two generations they destroyed much of it, re-using its materials to create security and a modern prosperity.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greenhalgh, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Series:History of warfare ; v. 98.
Subjects:
1800-1962
Classical antiquities > Destruction and pillage > Algeria > History > 19th century.
Antiquités gréco-romaines > Destruction et pillage > Algérie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Classical antiquities
Classical antiquities > Destruction and pillage
French colonies
Algeria > Antiquities, Roman.
France > Algeria > Colonies.
Algeria > History > 1830-1962.
France > Colonies > Algérie.
Algeria
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The French conquest
  • The army establishes itself, colonisation begins
  • 1830-40: the destruction of Algiers, Constantine and other early settlements
  • Ruins, roads and railways
  • Epigraphy, topography and mapping
  • The army rebuilds Tebessa (first visited 1842)
  • Building European towns from the 1840s
  • Planting colonies
  • Algeria and Tunisia on display.

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