Description: Markets of Civilization : Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria, Paperback by Davis, Muriam Haleh, ISBN 147801850X, ISBN-13 9781478018506, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. French officials in Paris and Algiers introduced what Davis terms "a racial regime of religion" that subjected Algerian Muslims to discriminatory political and economic structures. These experts believed that introducing a market economy would modernize society and discourage anticolonial nationalism. Planners, politicians, and economists implemented reforms that sought to transform Algerians into modern economic subjects and drew on racial assumptions despite the formally color-blind policies of the French state. Following independence, convictions about the inherent link between religious beliefs and economic behavior continued to influence development policies. Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella embraced a specifically Algerian socialism founded on Islamic principles, while French technocrats saw Algeria as a testing ground for development projects elsewhere in the global South. Highlighting the entanglements between race and religion, Davis demonstrates that economic orthodoxies helped fashion understandings of national identity on both shores of the Mediterranean during decolonization"--
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Book Title: Markets of Civilization : Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Markets of Civilization : Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Africa / General, Africa / North, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Muriam Haleh Davis
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Theory in Forms Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
