Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria
by Joshua Schreier
Rutgers University Press, 2010
Cloth: 978-0-8135-4794-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-7676-3 (ePub) | eISBN: 978-0-8135-5035-0 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification DS135.A3S357 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.892406509034
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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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