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Date
2011
Location
Ithaca, N.Y.
New York (State)
United States
New York (State)
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xv, 365 p.
Language
English
Size
25 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 266032
Folger call number: DT294 .S44 2011
Folger holdings ID: 351886
Accession Number: 267183
Folger call number: DT294 .S44 2011
Folger holdings ID: 351886
Accession Number: 267183
Summary
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, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its only large-scale settler colony. Deftly reconstructing the political culture of mid-nineteenth-century France, she also sheds light on policies whose long-term consequences remain a source of social, cultural, and political tensions in France and its former colony. -- Jacket
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-356) and index
Contents
Introduction : the cultural origins of French Algeria -- 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 -- 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
Also known as
Extended title: By sword and plow : France and the conquest of Algeria / Jennifer E. Sessions
Alternate titles: France and the conquest of Algeria
Alternate titles: France and the conquest of Algeria
Related names
author: Sessions, Jennifer E. (Jennifer Elson), 1974-