Writings on Empire and Slavery (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
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Franska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2003-12-01
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New ed
Förlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Översättare
Jennifer Pitts
Originalspråk
French
Medarbetare
Pitts, Jennifer (red.)
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No
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229 x 152 x 19 mm
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477 g
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1
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book
ISBN
9780801877568

Writings on Empire and Slavery

Alexis De Tocqueville

av Alexis De Tocqueville, Jennifer Pitts
Häftad,  Franska, 2003-12-01
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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 stands in tension with his admiration for the benefits of democracy he witnessed in America. Although Tocqueville never published a book-length study of French North Africa, his various writings on the subject provide as invaluable a portrait of French imperialism as Democracy in America does of the Early Republic period in American history. In Writings on Empire and Slavery, Jennifer Pitts has selected and translated nine of his most important dispatches on Algeria, which offer startling new insights into both Tocqueville's political thought and French liberalism's attitudes toward the political, military, and moral aspects of France's colonial expansion. The volume also includes six articles Tocqueville wrote during the same period calling for the emancipation of slaves in France's Caribbean colonies.
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A highly readable translation of Tocqueville's writings on colonization and slavery and a useful introduction of just the right length... Tocqueville's writings on colonialism, rather than revealing the limits of his liberalism, lead one to the core of it. -- Delba Winthrop Society By offering the first translation of these documents in a single volume, Pitts has provided a valuable service to the nineteenth-century specialist. The book should enhance readers' perspectives of both European liberalism and French colonialism. -- Jack B. Ridley History: Reviews of New Books As Jennifer Pitts points out in an informative and perceptive introduction to her edition and translation of Tocqueville's Writings on Empire and Slavery, his thinking remained in the mold of a nineteenth-century liberal, more sensitive to the fragility of free institutions in the French state than to the suffering of colonials. -- Klaus J. Hansen Canadian Journal of History Should be required reading for anyone interested in the history of colonialism, imperialism, liberalism and Algeria... Writings on Empire and Slavery features the clarity and depth that one expects from the author of Democracy in America. -- Michael Shurkin Patterns of Prejudice A highly useful collection. -- Daniel Lazare The Nation

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Jennifer Pitts is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Some Ideas About What Prevents The French From Having Good Colonies (1833) Chapter 2. First Letter on Algeria (23 June 1837) Chapter 3. Second Letter on Algeria (22 August 1837) Chapter 4. Notes on the Koran (March 1838) Chapter 5. Notes on the Voyage to Algeria in 1841 Chapter 6. Essay on Algeria (October 1841) Chapter 7. Intervention in the Debate Over the Appropriation of Special Funding (1846) Chapter 8. First Report on Algeria (1847) Chapter 9. Second Report on Algeria (1847) Chapter 10. The Emancipation of Slaves (1843) Notes Select Bibliography Index

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