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Tocqueville and Algeria

Begin, Christian

The Tocqueville review, 2009-01, Vol.30 (2), p.179-203 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Tocqueville and Algeria
Autor: Begin, Christian
Assuntos: Algeria ; Careers ; Colonialism ; de Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel ; France ; Freedom ; Ideology ; Liberalism ; Nation ; Nationalism ; Politics ; Tocqueville, Alexis de ; War
É parte de: The Tocqueville review, 2009-01, Vol.30 (2), p.179-203
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Descrição: Though Tocqueville's most cherished value was that of human liberty, during the course of his political career, he supported the war against the Algerian freedom fighter, Abd el-Kader. In this article, the author examines Tocqueville's political choices in their historical perspective, through the two seemingly contradictory propositions that, on the one hand, he opposed colonial expansion. On the other hand, the presence of colonies might promote a country's liberty. Though Tocqueville was not a theoretician of colonialism, he was a man of politics who supported efforts to quell nationalist movements in colonial nations, hoping thus to minimize their harmful effects. However, the author maintains, this inconsistency represented Tocqueville's failure to apply his liberal ideology to bring an end to the inequality in Algeria. W. A. Butler
Idioma: Francês

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