A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

by Benjamin Claude Brower

Book Overview

In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231154933
• ISBN13: 9780231154932
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher