Barbary and Enlightenment

European Attitudes Towards the Maghreb in the 18th Century
Erscheinungsjahr 1987
ISBN: 978-90-04-08273-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. We see that uncertainty as to how to classify this region, its inhabitants, its form of government and social evolution - which led to its absence from most contemporary anthropological discussions - was resolved in the early nineteenth-century with the appearance of what were to become colonial stereotypes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomson, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction

PART ONE

Preconceptions

PART TWO: CLASSIFICATION

Introductory
I. Location
II. Race
III. Society and Government

PART THREE

Towards The Conquest
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index