Author

Publication

1987 - Brill, Leiden

Language

English

Word Count

43,250 words, Guess

Page Count

173 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL2372689M
  • ISBN-109004082735
  • OCLC Control Number15163796
  • Library of Congress Control Number87000706
  • Goodreads4522673

Classifications

  • DDC961/.03
  • LCCDT197.5.E8 T46 1987

Description

This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitudes towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. Dealing with an area that has hitherto attracted little attention, this book throws new light on how enlightened Europe saw the rest of the world, and on the rise of racism.

Subjects

Topics

RelationsPublic opinionIntellectual lifeAfrica, north, historyPublic opinion -- Europe.European Foreign public opinionAfrica, North -- Relations -- Europe.

Times

Series Statement

  • Brill's studies in intellectual history,

Other Editions

  • Barbary and enlightenment: European attitudes towards the Maghreb in the 18th centuryBrill1987-01-01

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