Imperial Identities
Subtitle: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: July 16, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781860643767
Subjects: Ethnography; Multicultural studies; Political structure & processes; Social issues; Discrimination & Racism; Archaeology / Anthropology; Textbooks; Multicultural Nonfiction; Algeria; Africa - General; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Middle East
First sentence: The pretext for the French invasion of Algeria in 1830 was a diplomatic incident which occurred in April 1827 when the Dey of Algiers hit the French Consul-General with a fly-swatter.