Colonization of Names - Symbolic Violence and Frances Occupation of Algeria

This groundbreaking history of personal names in nineteenth-century Algeria sheds new light on the symbolic violence of renaming and the relationship between language and colonialism.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Benjamin Claude Brower is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 (Columbia, 2009).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Benjamin Brower, Benjamin (University of Texas At Austin) Brower
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.08.2025
• EAN: 9780231216029
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21602-9
• Seiten: 360
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; History, France, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Africa / North, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, General and world history, North Africa, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, history; political science