Barbary and enlightenment : : European attitudes towards the Maghreb in the 18th century / / by Ann Thomson.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 2
• VerfasserIn: Thomson, Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1987.
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude 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...