LEADER 03972nam 2200601 450 001 9910792567203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5446-8 010 $a0-8014-5447-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801454479 035 $a(CKB)3710000001006837 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496049 035 $a(OCoLC)964359893 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58412 035 $a(DE-B1597)478231 035 $a(OCoLC)979880975 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801454479 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4392767 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11352658 035 $a(OCoLC)975225450 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4392767 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001006837 100 $a20170309h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBy sword and plow $eFrance and the conquest of Algeria /$fJennifer E. Sessions 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2011. 210 4$d©2011 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2011. 311 $a0-8014-5652-5 311 $a0-8014-4975-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tIntroduction: The Cultural Origins of French Algeria -- $tPART I. By the Sword -- $t1. A Tale of Two Despots -- $t2. Empire of Merit -- $t3. The Blood of Brothers -- $tPART II. By the Plow -- $t4. The Empire of Virtue -- $t5. Selling Algeria -- $t6. Settling Algeria -- $tConclusion -- $tSelected Bibliography of Primary Sources -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its only large-scale settler colony. Deftly reconstructing the political culture of mid-nineteenth-century France, she also sheds light on policies whose long-term consequences remain a source of social, cultural, and political tensions in France and its former colony.In Sessions's view, French expansion in North Africa was rooted in contests over sovereignty and male citizenship in the wake of the Atlantic revolutions of the eighteenth century. The French monarchy embraced warfare as a means to legitimize new forms of rule, incorporating the Algerian army into royal iconography and public festivals. Colorful broadsides, songs, and plays depicted the men of the Armée d'Afrique as citizen soldiers. Social reformers and colonial theorists formulated plans to settle Algeria with European emigrants. The propaganda used to recruit settlers featured imagery celebrating Algeria's agricultural potential, but the male emigrants who responded were primarily poor, urban laborers who saw the colony as a place to exercise what they saw as their right to work. Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern France. 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / France$2bisacsh 607 $aAlgeria$xHistory$yFrench Expedition, 1830 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yJuly Revolution, 1830 607 $aAlgeria$xHistory$y1830-1962 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / France. 676 $a965/.03 700 $aSessions$b Jennifer E$g(Jennifer Elson),$f1974-$01492915 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792567203321 996 $aBy sword and plow$93715681 997 $aUNINA