{"product_id":"by-sword-and-plow-france-and-the-conquest-of-algeria-paperback-softback-9780801456527","title":"By Sword and Plow; France and the Conquest of Algeria (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801456527","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBy Sword and Plow\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrance and the Conquest of Algeria\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer E. Sessions (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801456527\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 November 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 54 halftones, 2 maps, 9 tables, 1 chart\/graph - 54 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer E. Sessions argues that the contested political culture of the post-revolutionary period was at the origins of French Algeria. The dualism that structures the book's title, \u003ci\u003eBy Sword and Plow\u003c\/i\u003e, frames an alternative narrative of nineteenth-century French history. Sessions presents the conquest and settlement of Algeria as one of the nineteenth century's major events, one in which issues of sovereignty, citizenship, and political power were played out. This book will be read with fascination by readers with widely different interests.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Modern History) \u003cp\u003eSessions offers up a fine and illuminating study of the early years of \u003ci\u003eAlgérie française\u003c\/i\u003e and makes an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century political culture.... \u003ci\u003eBy Sword and Plow\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive, highly readable, and meticulously-researched piece of scholarship that deserves the attention of all historians of France overseas and France in the first half of the nineteenth century.... It shows French imperialism in a new and (sometimes radically) different light.\u003c\/p\u003e - John Strachan (H-France Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers.\u003c\/b\u003e Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In \u003ci\u003eBy Sword and Plow\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its only large-scale settler colony. Deftly reconstructing the political culture of mid-nineteenth-century France, she also sheds light on policies whose long-term consequences remain a source of social, cultural, and political tensions in France and its former colony. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Sessions's view, French expansion in North Africa was rooted in contests over sovereignty and male citizenship in the wake of the Atlantic revolutions of the eighteenth century. The French monarchy embraced warfare as a means to legitimize new forms of rule, incorporating the Algerian army into royal iconography and public festivals. Colorful broadsides, songs, and plays depicted the men of the Armée d'Afrique as citizen soldiers. Social reformers and colonial theorists formulated plans to settle Algeria with European emigrants. The propaganda used to recruit settlers featured imagery celebrating Algeria's agricultural potential, but the male emigrants who responded were primarily poor, urban laborers who saw the colony as a place to exercise what they saw as their right to work. Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Origins of French Algeria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: By the Sword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Tale of Two Despots: The Invasion of Algeria and the Revolution of 1830\u003cbr\u003e 2. Empire of Merit: The July Monarchy and the Algerian War\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Blood of Brothers: Bonapartism and the Popular Culture of Conquest\u003cb\u003ePart II. By the Plow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Empire of Virtue: Colonialism in the Age of Abolition\u003cbr\u003e 5. Selling Algeria: Speculation and the Colonial Landscape\u003cbr\u003e 6. Settling Algeria: Labor, Emigration, and CitizenshipConclusion: \u003ci\u003ePolitics and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography of Primary Sources\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520772632856,"sku":"9780801456527","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/by-sword-and-plow-france-and-the-conquest-of-algeria-paperback-softback-9780801456527","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}