Political and Economic Thought and Practice in Nineteenth-century France and the Colonization of Algeria

This book reexamines the place of Algeria in this history and to consider the manner in which the colonial past has seeped more generally from the conscious European memory.

At the same time, contemporary race and politics in Europe can only be fully understood in conjunction with knowlege of these backgrounds and it requires that a different view of the way in which the imperialist experience has been an instrumental influence on perceptions taken.