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By Sword and Plow

France and the Conquest of Algeria
Sessions, Jennifer E. (Book - 2011)
By Sword and Plow


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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

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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.

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Imprint: Ithaca, N.Y. - Cornell University Press
Pages: 365
ISBN: 0801449758, 9780801449758
Language: English
Notes: 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-356) and index
Statement of responsibility: Jennifer E. Sessions
Characteristics: xv, 365 p. :,ill., maps ;,25 cm
Author (Original Script): Sessions, Jennifer E.
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