Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria

Centered around a massive ecological disaster in which eight hundred thousand Algerians died between 1865 and 1872, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria explores how repeated performance of divisions across an expansive ecosystem produced modern imperialism in nineteenth-century Algeria.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Rubble of Empire
2. Lay of the Land
3. Performing the Border
4. Crisis Ecologies
5. Over the Borderline
6. Work, Crime, and Being Human
7. Toxic Modernity
8. It’s About Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index

 

About the author

Brock Cutler is an associate professor of history at Radford University.

Summary

Centered around a massive ecological disaster in which eight hundred thousand Algerians died between 1865 and 1872, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria explores how repeated performance of divisions across an expansive ecosystem produced modern imperialism in nineteenth-century Algeria.

Product details

• Authors: Brock Cutler
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781496232533
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3253-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous