Writings on Empire and Slavery

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7756-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

After completing his research for Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville turned to the French consolidation of its empire in North Africa, which he believed deserving of similar attention. Tocqueville began studying Algerian history and culture, making two trips to Algeria in 1841 and 1846. He quickly became one of France's foremost experts on the country and wrote essays, articles, official letters, and parliamentary reports on such diverse topics as France's military and administrative policies in North Africa, the people of the Maghrib, his own travels in Algeria, and the practice of Islam. Throughout, Tocqueville consistently defended the French imperial project, a position that stands in tension with his admiration for the benefits of democracy he witnessed in America.

Although Tocqueville never published a book-length study of French North Africa, his various writings on the subject provide as invaluable a portrait of French imperialism as Democracy in America does of the Early Republic period in American history. In Writings on Empire and Slavery, Jennifer Pitts has selected and translated nine of his most important dispatches on Algeria, which offer startling new insights into both Tocqueville's political thought and French liberalism's attitudes toward the political, military, and moral aspects of France's colonial expansion. The volume also includes six articles Tocqueville wrote during the same period calling for the emancipation of slaves in France's Caribbean colonies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Tocqueville, Alexis

Pitts, Jennifer

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pitts, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Some Ideas About What Prevents The French From Having Good Colonies (1833)
Chapter 2. First Letter on Algeria (23 June 1837)
Chapter 3. Second Letter on Algeria (22 August 1837)
Chapter 4. Notes on the Koran (March 1838)
Chapter 5. Notes on the Voyage to Algeria in 1841
Chapter 6. Essay on Algeria (October 1841)
Chapter 7. Intervention in the Debate Over the Appropriation of Special Funding (1846)
Chapter 8. First Report on Algeria (1847)
Chapter 9. Second Report on Algeria (1847)
Chapter 10. The Emancipation of Slaves (1843)
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pitts, Jennifer
Jennifer Pitts is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University.

Pitts, Jennifer
Jennifer Pitts is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University.

Jennifer Pitts is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University.