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Empire of Landscape:

Space and Ideology in French Colonial Algeria
  • ISBN-13: 9780271034430
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By John Zarobell
  • Price: AUD $225.00
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2010
  • Format: Hardback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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Explores visual culture and the social history of art through an analysis of French images of nineteenth-century Algeria.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Eternal Feminine: Self-Sacrifice, Modesty, and Discretion

2. Fin de Siglo: Modernity and the Culture of Decadence

3. Pupilas and Mestizas

4. Santa, La India Bonita, and Mexican Maternity

5. Desnudas, Amazonas, and Tehuanas

6. Double Portraits: “Sons (and Daughters) of La Malinche

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Though his argument is often highly theoretical, Zarobell’s study is clearly written and solidly based on close visual analysis.”

—L. R. Matteson, Choice

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