Writings on Empire and Slavery

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After completing his research for Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville turned to the French consolidation of its empire in North Africa, which he believed deserving of an identical attention. Tocqueville started studying Algerian history and culture, making two trips to Algeria in 1841 and 1846. He quickly became one in every of France’s foremost experts at the country and wrote essays, articles, official letters, and parliamentary reports on such diverse topics as France’s military and administrative policies in North Africa, the people of the Maghrib, his own travels in Algeria, and the practice of Islam. During, Tocqueville consistently defended the French imperial project, a position that stands in tension with his admiration for the advantages of democracy he witnessed in The us.

Although Tocqueville never published a book-length study of French North Africa, his quite a lot of writings at the subject provide as invaluable a portrait of French imperialism as Democracy in America does of the Early Republic period in American history. In Writings on Empire and Slavery, Jennifer Pitts has selected and translated nine of his most essential dispatches on Algeria, which offer startling new insights into both Tocqueville’s political thought and French liberalism’s attitudes toward the political, military, and moral aspects of France’s colonial expansion. The volume also includes six articles Tocqueville wrote all the way through the same period calling for the emancipation of slaves in France’s Caribbean colonies.

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