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A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 Hardcover - 2009
by Benjamin Brower
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- Title A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
- Author Benjamin Brower
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-07
- ISBN 9780231154925 / 0231154925
- Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.27 x 1.33 in (23.65 x 15.93 x 3.38 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: North Africa
- Library of Congress subjects Imperialism - History - 19th century, Algeria - History - 1830-1962
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009007514
- Dewey Decimal Code 965.03
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- Chronicle of Higher Education, 08/07/2009, Page 17
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New. In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply a way to get empire on the cheap. A Desert Named Peace examines colonial violence through multiple stories and across several fields of research. It presents four cases: the military conquests of the French army in the oases and officers' predisposition to use extreme violence in colonial conflicts; a spontaneous nighttime attack made by Algerian pastoralists on a French village, as notable for its brutality as for its obscure causes; the violence of indigenous forms of slavery and the colonial accommodations that preserved it during the era of…
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