GAUTIER (E.-F.) – A CENTURY OF COLONIZATION, Studies under the microscope, 1830-1930, Algeria Centenary Collection, Archaeology and History
GAUTIER (E.-F.) – A CENTURY OF COLONIZATION, Studies under the microscope, 1830-1930, Algeria Centenary Collection, Archaeology and History
GAUTIER (E.-F.) – A CENTURY OF COLONIZATION, Studies under the microscope, 1830-1930, Algeria Centenary Collection, Archaeology and History
    GAUTIER (E.-F.)
    A CENTURY OF COLONIZATION, Microscopic Studies, 1830-1930, Algeria Centenary Collection, Archaeology and History
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1930
    octavo, paperback, uncut, numerous iconographic documents, transparent plastic cover, (numerous foxing spots and pinholes inside), interior fairly fresh despite the aforementioned defect, 347 p.
    “Mr. Gautier’s books have long since impressed us with a flavor and authority like no other: he doesn’t disregard ‘method’ and ‘criticism,’ but instead of considering them as machines made to hum along to produce books in series, he sees them as instruments, which he uses as he pleases; and the result, which often scandalizes the established powers, is that a book by Mr. Gautier is always new. This one has not deviated from the rule; we know, and Mr. Gautier knows better than anyone, having practiced and taught it for years, the ordinary mechanics of establishing and juxtaposing index cards; but couldn’t we, for once, break free from them?” and to experience what would come of this other infinitely more extensive and flexible documentation, which is the memory of a life spent living in the midst of history in the making, with all the power to inform oneself, to feel, which the antennae of curiosity and sympathy give? Would it not be interesting to subject the data of a great question like that of the colonization of Algeria to this exciting test of “study”, of dismantling by detail a few specific cases?” (J. Tramond, Revue de l’histoire des colonies françaises, n° 79/1931; p. 78 et seq.).

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Mots-clés : Colonial History

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