Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Special Publications
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
America
Author: R.W.P. de Vries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Catalogue of Scientific Serials of All Countries
Author: Samuel Hubbard ScudderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Catalogue of scientific serials of all countries, 1633-1876
Author: Samuel Hubbard ScudderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A Desert Named Peace
Author: Benjamin Claude BrowerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231154933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
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 abolition; and the struggles of French Romantics whose debates about art and politics arrived from Paris with disastrous consequences. Benjamin Claude Brower uses these different perspectives to reveal the unexpected causes of colonial violence, such as France's troubled revolutionary past and its influence on the military's institutional culture, the aesthetics of the sublime and its impact on colonial thinking, the ecological crises suffered by Saharan pastoralists under colonial rule, and the conflicting paths to authority inherent in Algerian Sufism. Directly engaging a controversial history, A Desert Named Peace offers an important backdrop to understanding the Algerian war for independence (1954-1962) and Algeria's ongoing internal war, begun in 1992, between the government and armed groups that claim to fight for an Islamist revolution.
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, (1665 to 1882)
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Catalogue of Scientific Serials of All Countries Including the Translations of Learned Societis in the Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences 1633-1876
Author: Samuel Hubbard ScudderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Constantinople to Córdoba
Author: Michael GreenhalghPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004229272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Offering a multitude of examples through the centuries, this book examines how the architecture of the ancient world was transformed or destroyed under Byzantium and Islam, to produce new forms which often owed their materials and sometimes their styles to the past.