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  • The Colonization of Names

    Symbolic Violence and France’s Occupation of Algeria

    by Benjamin Brower ...
    French colonization dismantled Algerian names. Under the occupation that began in 1830, not only were Algerian towns and streets renamed in honor of French figures, but personal names were forced to follow French conventions and norms. Colonial authorities simplified and transformed Algerian names to suit their administrative and legal purposes, crudely transcribing and transliterating Arabic and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Desert Named Peace

    The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

    by Benjamin Brower ...
    Series series History and Society of the Modern Middle East
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Arab France

    Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831

    by Ian Coller ...
    Many think of Muslims in Europe as a twentieth century phenomenon, but this book brings to life a lost community of Arabs who lived through war, revolution, and empire in early nineteenth century France. Ian Coller uncovers the surprising story of the several hundred men, women, and children—Egyptians, Syrians, Greeks, and others—who followed the French army back home after Napoleon’s occupation ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Only Muslim

    Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France

    by Naomi Davidson ...
    The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints, posters, propaganda films, and documentation from metropolitan and colonial officials as well as ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Reviving Phoenicia

    The Search for Identity in Lebanon

    by Asher Kaufman ...
    Reviving Phoenicia follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria and America towards the end of the nineteenth century in the birth and dissemination of this ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

    by F. Elizabeth Dahab ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Québec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Orientalism's Interlocutors

    Painting, Architecture, Photography

    by Nicholas Thomas, Zeynep Çelik, Roger Benjamin, Mark Crinson ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Medicine and the Saints

    Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

    by Ellen J. Amster ...
    The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen)

    by Hsain Ilahiane ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • From Toussaint to Price-Mars

    Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought

    by Celucien L. Joseph ...
    In From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought, Scholar, Intellectual, and Theologian Celucien L. Joseph engages Haiti's intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and writings of Haiti's four most important thinkers and writers: Toussaint Louverture, Joseph Antenor Firmin, Jacques Roumain, and Jean Price-Mars--ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth ... Read more

    $14.50 USD

  • The Politics of Secularism

    Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey

    by Murat Akan ...
    Series Book 41 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Discussions of modernity—or alternative and multiple modernities—often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe, which neglects the experience of much of the world, or emphasize a local, non-European context that limits ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • On the Mediterranean and the Nile

    The Jews of Egypt

    by Aimée Israel-Pelletier ...
    Series series Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
    Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism, European colonialism, and discourse on the Holocaust. She illustrates that the Jews of Egypt ... Read more

    $9.99 USD