Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377963
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 2, 1825)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377963
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 3, 1830)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377956
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 6, 1839)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Philosophical Society Library
Author: American Philosophical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 5, 1837)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Transactions of the Linnean Society
Author: 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.