《Barbary and Enlightenment》是1987年Brill出版的圖書，作者是Thomson, A.。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Barbary and Enlightenment
- 作者：Thomson, A.
- 出版社：Brill
- ISBN：9789004082731
內容簡介
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. We see that uncertainty as to how to classify this region, its inhabitants, its form of government and social evolution - which led to its absence from most contemporary anthropological discussions - was resolved in the early nineteenth-century with the appearance of what were to become colonial stereotypes.
