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A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

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A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 - Brower, Benjamin Claude
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In the mid-nineteenth century French colonial leaders in Algeria descended southward into the Sahara, initiating a fifty-year period of violence. The French Empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere, yet this did not yield empire on the cheap, and violence in colonial Algeria followed a shifting political logic. "A Desert Named Peace" presents four cases: the military conquests of the French army in the oases and officers' predisposition to use extreme violence in colonial conflicts; a ...

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