The military and colonial destruction of the Roman landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900 / / by Michael Greenhalgh.

The French invaded Algeria in 1830, and found a landscape rich in Roman remains, which they proceeded to re-use to support the constructions such as fortresses, barracks and hospitals needed to fight the natives (who continued to object to their presence), and to house the various colonisation proje...

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Superior document:History of Warfare, Volume 98
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:History of warfare ; Volume 98.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1039 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Setting the Scene: Algeria in Context
  • 1 The French Conquest
  • 2 The Army Establishes Itself, Colonisation Begins
  • 3 1830–40: The Destruction of Algiers, Constantine and other Early Settlements
  • 4 Ruins, Roads and Railways
  • 5 Epigraphy, Topography and Mapping
  • 6 The Army Rebuilds Tebessa (First visited 1842)
  • 7 Building European Towns from the 1840s
  • 8 Planting Colonies
  • 9 Algeria and Tunisia on Display
  • Conclusion: “Là où nous passons, tout tombe”
  • Appendix: A Timeline and Some Statistics
  • Bibliography
  • Index.