The military and colonial destruction of the Roman landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900

1. Verfasser: Greenhalgh, Michael , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014].
Umfang/Format: x, 432 pages : illustrations, maps.
Schriftenreihe: History of warfare volume 98
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Algeria
France
Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The French conquest
  • The army establishes itself, colonisation begins
  • 1830-40: the destruction of Algiers, Constantine and other early settlements
  • Ruins, roads and railways
  • Epigraphy, topography and mapping
  • The army rebuilds Tebessa (first visited 1842)
  • Building European towns from the 1840s
  • Planting colonies
  • Algeria and Tunisia on display.