{"product_id":"writings-on-empire-and-slavery-9780801877568","title":"Writings on Empire and Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter completing his research for \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e, Alexis de Tocqueville turned to the French consolidation of its empire in North Africa, which he believed deserving of similar attention. Tocqueville began studying Algerian history and culture, making two trips to Algeria in 1841 and 1846. He quickly became one of France's foremost experts on the country and wrote essays, articles, official letters, and parliamentary reports on such diverse topics as France's military and administrative policies in North Africa, the people of the Maghrib, his own travels in Algeria, and the practice of Islam. Throughout, Tocqueville consistently defended the French imperial project, a position that stands in tension with his admiration for the benefits of democracy he witnessed in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Tocqueville never published a book-length study of French North Africa, his various writings on the subject provide as invaluable a portrait of French imperialism as \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e does of the Early Republic period in American history. In \u003ci\u003eWritings on Empire and Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer Pitts has selected and translated nine of his most important dispatches on Algeria, which offer startling new insights into both Tocqueville's political thought and French liberalism's attitudes toward the political, military, and moral aspects of France's colonial expansion. The volume also includes six articles Tocqueville wrote during the same period calling for the emancipation of slaves in France's Caribbean colonies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJennifer Pitts \u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901162098962,"sku":"9780801877568","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c7225d00-a3ea-4c22-8f09-d1f07745a0c0.jpg?v=1738414978","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/writings-on-empire-and-slavery-9780801877568","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}