Markets of Civilization

Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria

Muriam Haleh Davis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1850-6 (ISBN)

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In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. French officials in Paris and Algiers introduced what Davis terms “a racial regime of religion” that subjected Algerian Muslims to discriminatory political and economic structures. These experts believed that introducing a market economy would modernize society and discourage anticolonial nationalism. Planners, politicians, and economists implemented reforms that both sought to transform Algerians into modern economic subjects and drew on racial assumptions despite the formally color-blind policies of the French state. Following independence, convictions about the inherent link between religious beliefs and economic behavior continued to influence development policies. Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella embraced a specifically Algerian socialism founded on Islamic principles, while French technocrats saw Algeria as a testing ground for development projects elsewhere in the Global South. Highlighting the entanglements of race and religion, Davis demonstrates that economic orthodoxies helped fashion understandings of national identity on both sides of the Mediterranean during decolonization.

Muriam Haleh Davis is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions, and Culture.

Acronyms ix
Transliteration Note xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Settling the Colony 19
2. A New Algeria Rising 43
3. Decolonization and the Constantine Plan 69
4. Fellahs into Peasants 96
5. Communism in a White Burnous 119
6. Today's Utopia Is Tomorrow's Reality 144
Epilogue 167
Notes 177
Bibliography 227
Index 259

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Theory in Forms
Zusatzinfo	12 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4780-1850-X / 147801850X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1850-6 / 9781478018506
Zustand	Neuware