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...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Jewish Cultures of the World Ser.
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (251 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813550350 |