Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria

ISBN-13: 9780813547947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str.

Joshua Schreier

Opis

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.