Writings on Empire and Slavery

Name: Writings on Empire and Slavery
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ISBN: 9780801877568

ISBN-10: 0801877563

ISBN-13: 9780801877568

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alexis de Tocqueville, Jennifer Pitts, Jennifer Pitts

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After completing his research for Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville turned to the French consolidation of its empire in North Africa, which he believed deserving of similar attention. Tocqueville began studying Algerian history and culture, making two trips to Algeria in 1841 and 1846. He quickly became one of France's foremost experts on the country and wrote essays, articles, official letters, and parliamentary reports on such diverse topics as France's military and administrative policies in North Africa, the people of the Maghrib, his own travels in Algeria, and the practice of Islam. Throughout, Tocqueville consistently defended the French imperial project, a position that…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Some Ideas About What Prevents the French from Having Good Colonies (1833)


First Letter on Algeria (23 June 1837)


Second Letter on Algeria (22 August 1837)


Notes on the Koran (March 1838)


Notes on the Voyage to Algeria in 1841


Essay on Algeria (October 1841)


Intervention in the Debate Over the Appropriation of Special Funding (1846)


First Report on Algeria (1847)


Second Report on Algeria (1847)


The Emancipation of Slaves (1843)


Notes


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Index