Barbary and enlightenment
Subtitle: European attitudes towards the Maghreb in the 18th century
By: by Ann Thomson.
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history,; v. 2
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Public opinion -- Europe.; Africa, North -- Foreign public opinion, European.; Europe -- Relations -- Africa, North.; Africa, North -- Relations -- Europe.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Description: This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitudes towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. Dealing with an area that has hitherto attracted little attention, this book throws new light on how enlightened Europe saw the rest of the world, and on the rise of racism.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [166]-168.
Includes index.