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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780801449758 03 01 Cornell University Press 01 GCOI 80140100455090 02 0801449758 03 9780801449758 15 9780801449758 59 BB 1 A01 Sessions, Jennifer E. Jennifer E. Sessions <p>Jennifer E. Sessions is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa.</p> 01 eng 352 00 352 03 66 HIS013000 10 HIS001030 10 POL045000 24 Internet Art, Architecture, and Photography 24 Internet History / Europe 24 Internet History / Africa and the Middle East 01 01 01 <P>In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. 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<em> By Sword and Plow</em>, 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.</p><P>In 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.</p> 02 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. 04 <p>Introduction: <em>The Cultural Origins of French Algeria</em></p><p><strong>Part I: By the Sword</strong><br />1. A Tale of Two Despots: The Invasion of Algeria and the Revolution of 1830<br />2. Empire of Merit: The July Monarchy and the Algerian War<br />3. The Blood of Brothers: Bonapartism and the Popular Culture of Conquest</p><p><strong>Part II. By the Plow</strong><br />4. The Empire of Virtue: Colonialism in the Age of Abolition<br />5. Selling Algeria: Speculation and the Colonial Landscape<br />6. Settling Algeria: Labor, Emigration, and Citizenship</p><p>Conclusion: <em>Politics and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France</em></p><p><em>Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources<br />Index</em></p> 08 <p>"Sessions has written an exemplary cultural history of empire that impresses by her range of sources, subtle analysis, and the unity of the argument from beginning to end."—Citation from the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize Committee (French Colonial Historical Society)</p> 08 <p>"In <em>By Sword and Plow</em>, Jennifer Sessions ably shows the place of the Algerian conquest within the political culture of the July Monarchy. Sessions avoids an elitist definition of public culture in the debates about Algeria and includes voices and sources from across the French social spectrum."—Joshua Cole, University of Michigan, author of <em>The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France</em></p> 08 <p>"<em>By Sword and Plow</em> contributes to our understanding of the aims and practice of French expansion into Algeria in the first half of the nineteenth century. By marrying the cultural with the political, Jennifer E. Sessions uncovers the policy choices that led successive French regimes to back colonial expansion and elucidates the way contemporary culture shaped French understandings of the conquest of Algeria. Sessions has produced an excellent addition to the growing literature on France and its nineteenth-century empire."—Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota, author of <em>Imperial Identities</em></p> 08 <p>"Combining the best of the different approaches to empire—military, political and cultural alike—Jennifer E. Sessions shows how the French conquest and settlement of Algeria originated in the economic and moral collapse of the slavery-based colonialism of the past. In the process, she expertly reveals the dense tissue of connections between domestic politics and sociocultural life on the one hand and imperial understandings and expectations on the other. This excellent book makes clear not only that Algeria was integral to France's successive nineteenth-century regimes but that they all sought to gain legitimacy by advertising their ability to rule that restive place."—Edward Berenson, New York University</p> 04 03 72 01 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/resources/titles/80140100455090/images/80140100455090L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/resources/titles/80140100455090/images/80140100455090S.jpg http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100455090 Cornell University Press 01 02 2021862 Cornell University Press Ithaca US 04 20111006 01 WORLD 01 9.25 in 02 6.13 in 08 21 oz 07 2021862 CUP Services http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu 02 CA MX US BV AL AD AM AU AT AZ BY BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FO FI GE DE GI GR HM HU IS IE MK IT PS KZ LV LI LT LU UM MT MC ME NL NZ NO PG PL PT RO RU SM AX SK SI ES SJ SE CH TR UA GB VA 02 Y 21 24 01 02 s 49.95 USD 06 5013546051314 NBN International http://www.nbninternational.com 02 BV AL AD AM AT AZ BY BE BA BG HR CY CZ DK EE FO FI FR GE DE GI GR HM HU IS IE MK IT PS KZ LV LI LT UM MT MD MC ME NL NO PL PT RO RU SM AX SK SI ES SJ SE CH TR UA GB VA AU CA JP MX US NZ PG 02 Y 20 20111006 24 01 02 s 02 30.95 GBP