Joshua Schreier

Arabs of the Jewish Faith

The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780813547947
• ISBN-10: 0813547946
• Artikelnr.: 30687577

Autorenporträt

Schreier, Joshua

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Jews
Commerce
and Community in Early Colonial Algeria 2. Revolution
Republicanism
and Religion: Responses to Civilizing in Oran
1848 3. Synagogues
Surveillance
and Civilization 4. Teaching Civilization: French Schools and Algerian Midrashim
1852-1870 5. From Napolean's Sanhedrin to the Cremiéux Decree: Sex
Marriage
and the Boundaries of Civilization Conclusion