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The Tricolor on the Atlas, or, Algeria and the French conquest

The Tricolor on the Atlas, or, Algeria and the French conquest

Pulszky, Ferencz

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral AsiaGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 9353800900
ISBN13: 9789353800901
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Follow the tricolour beyond the map, into the harsh light of 19th century Algeria, where ambition, religion, and terrain collide. This is conquest, seen close. Ferencz Pulszky frames a vivid 19th century travelogue around the French conquest of Algeria, blending eyewitness description with a clear sighted military history account. Moving between garrison towns, routes, and the Atlas Mountains region, he notes the pressures of French imperial expansion and the realities of North African campaigns: logistics, morale, and the uneasy meeting of cultures on contested ground. His narrative sits at the junction of reportage and interpretation, attentive to geography as much as policy. The Atlas passes, coastal approaches, and interior plains become part of the story of command. Without disguising his period viewpoint, Pulszky records the frictions of occupation, the uncertainty of alliances, and the human cost carried by both armies and civilians alike. Read as Maghreb travel writing, it offers pace and atmosphere; read as a colonial studies reference, it preserves the language, assumptions, and anxieties of an era shaping modern North Africa. As a public domain classic of French colonial empire history, The Tricolor on the Atlas remains a telling document of how empires narrated themselves. Collectors of nonfiction and readers drawn to travel and military history alike will value this complete text edition for its immediacy and historical weight. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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