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- Title
Imagining the Trans-Mediterranean Republic: Algeria, Republicanism, and the Ideological Origins of the French Imperial Nation-State, 1848-1870.
- Authors
Murray-Miller, Gavin
- Abstract
This article looks at the dialogue between metropolitan political elites and Algerian activists that grew up during the Second Empire, revisiting an important moment in the making of France's "modern" republican democracy. Through an examination of Algerian newspapers and publications, it assesses the role that colonial public opinion played in the "republican renaissance" of the 1860s, detailing how colon polemicists consciously tailored an ideology of moderate republicanism to fit colonial society and elaborate a brand of republican colonialism that would, in time, provide the ideological basis for the colonial republic. In placing nineteenth-century French political history in a trans-Mediterranean framework, this article challenges the customary history of hexagonal France, indicating the vital role colonial activists played in the making of republican colonialism, influencing considerations of the French nation and citizenship that would, in time, encourage the conception of a French imperial nation-state supported under the Third Republic.
- Subjects
AFRICA; HISTORY of republicanism; MODERNITY; ACTIVISM; ALGERIAN newspapers; SECOND French Empire; FRENCH Second Republic; FRENCH Algeria; FRENCH colonies; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 2, p303
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-2401620