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An Empire of Facts - Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,831
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An Empire of Facts - Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 (Hardcover): George R. Trumbull IV

An Empire of Facts - Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)

George R. Trumbull IV

Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire

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An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Narratives of Islamic mysticism, rituals, gender relations, and sensational crimes brought unfamiliar cultural forms and practices to popular attention in France, but also constructed Algerian Muslims as objects for colonial intervention. Personal lives and interactions between Algerian and French men and women inflected these texts, determining their style, content, and consequences. Drawing on sources in Arabic and French, this book places such personal moments at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge, emphasizing the indeterminacy of ethnography, and its political context in the unfolding of France's empire and its relations with Muslim North Africa.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
Release date: November 2009
First published: 2010
Authors: George R. Trumbull IV
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-51654-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 0-521-51654-4
Barcode: 9780521516549

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