Ebook: Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria
Author: Joshua Schreier
- Tags: Algeria, Africa, History, North Africa, Africa, History, France, Europe, History, Jewish, Holocaust, World, History, Politics & Social Sciences, Anthropology, Archaeology, Philosophy, Politics & Government, Social Sciences, Sociology, Women’s Studies
- Series: Jewish Cultures of the World
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Language: English
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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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