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Benjamin Brower

IHS Workshop: “Wherever the Flag Flies”: Conquest, Sovereignty, and Vital Records in Early Colonial Algeria

October 5, 2022

This is a chapter from “In the Beginning I Had a Name: Symbolic Violence, the Name, and Algeria’s Colonization,” a book about the colonization of Algerian names in the nineteenth century. Overall, Algerians saw their names transformed as France remade Algeria in its own image, exerting a monopoly of symbolic violence in pair with their […]

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