Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria

by Joshua Schreier

Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813547946
• ISBN13: 9780813547947
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher