Introduction : republicanism deferred -- Never the twain shall meet? -- The moral conquest -- Impermanent monstrosities -- Lights out -- Raised in our care -- Napoleon, emperor of the Arabs -- Conclusion : another Napoleon, another Waterloo
Summary
This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century
