Patricia M. E. Lorcin is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous books, including Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia, Algeria and France 1800¿2000, and France and Its Spaces of War.

Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University and the author of Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria.

Foreword by Hugh Roberts
Introduction to the Nebraska Edition
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Algeria 1830-1870

1. The conquest: Kabyles and Arabs in warfare

2. Security and reconnaissance part 1: the elaboration and confirmation of categories

3. Security and reconnaissance part 2: Islam and society

4. The 'Royaume Arabe' (1860-1870)

Part II. Social sciences and military men

5. The Ecole Polytechnique, Saint-Simonianism and the army

6. Race and scholarship in Algeria: the impact of the military

7. Scholarly societies in France: the Kabyle Myth as a racial paradigm

Part III. Algeria 1871-1900: The eclipse of the Kabyle Myth

8. Civilian rule

9. Algeria, the melting-pot of the Mediterranean: the impact of Louis Bertrand

Part IV. The legacy

10. Persistent stereotypes and resultant policies

Part V

11. Conclusion

Notes to chapters

Appendix: Biographical sketches

Bibliography

Index

Patricia M. E. Lorcin is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous books, including Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia, Algeria and France 1800-2000, and France and Its Spaces of War.

Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University and the author of Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria.