Writings on Empire and Slavery

Writings on Empire and Slavery
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0801865093
ISBN-13 : 9780801865091
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Download or read book Writings on Empire and Slavery written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writings on Empire and Slavery, Jennifer Pitts has selected and translated nine of his most important 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.


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