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The military and colonial destruction of the Roman landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 / / by Michael Greenhalgh



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Autore: Greenhalgh Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: The military and colonial destruction of the Roman landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 / / by Michael Greenhalgh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1039 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Disciplina: 939/.703
Soggetto topico: Classical antiquities - Destruction and pillage - Algeria - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Algeria Antiquities, Roman
France Colonies Algeria
Algeria History 1830-196
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Setting the Scene: Algeria in Context -- 1 The French Conquest -- 2 The Army Establishes Itself, Colonisation Begins -- 3 1830–40: The Destruction of Algiers, Constantine and other Early Settlements -- 4 Ruins, Roads and Railways -- 5 Epigraphy, Topography and Mapping -- 6 The Army Rebuilds Tebessa (First visited 1842) -- 7 Building European Towns from the 1840s -- 8 Planting Colonies -- 9 Algeria and Tunisia on Display -- Conclusion: “Là où nous passons, tout tombe” -- Appendix: A Timeline and Some Statistics -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: The French invaded Algeria in 1830, and found a landscape rich in Roman remains, which they proceeded to re-use to support the constructions such as fortresses, barracks and hospitals needed to fight the natives (who continued to object to their presence), and to house the various colonisation projects with which they intended to solidify their hold on the country, and to make it both modern and profitable. Arabs and Berbers had occasionally made use of the ruins, but it was still a Roman and Early Christian landscape when the French arrived. In the space of two generations, this was destroyed, just as were many ancient remains in France, in part because “real” architecture was Greek, not Roman.
Titolo autorizzato: The military and colonial destruction of the Roman landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-04-27163-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464067903321
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Serie: History of warfare ; ; Volume 98.