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Loading... Barbary and Enlightenment: European Attitudes Towards the Maghreb in the 18th Century (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Vol 2)by Ann Thomson
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)961.03History and Geography Africa Tunisia; Libya; The Maghreb GenerallyLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |