... why the federal utopias of 1946 had no chance of ever being realized. Central to these was the imperial nation-state of France and the forms of French political, economic, and racial privilege that would remain priorities during and after the moment of decolonization. The path that led to the nation...

.... Nonetheless, for these technocrats, incorporation into a French imperial sphere distanced them from these performative global networks of exchange. The productive interactions of officials from the Ottoman Empire (and even the French mandate era) with the IIA illustrate a number of dynamics...

... in order to help theorize phenomena such as globalization (e.g., Americanization) and the EU. In the past several years, imperial studies have been revis- ited, dusted off, and put back into circulation. Long relegated to the margins of historiography in the French case, colonial experiences...

...? These questions define the method that structures the essay's argument. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 orientalism Islam Shahab Ahmed anthropology of Islam Islamic metaphysics Islamic philosophy French imperialism Concluding What Is Islam? , Shahab Ahmed defines Islam...

... of Allied servicemen; newspaper critiques of nightlife entertainments and behaviors; and correspondence among bar and theater owners, their supporters, critics, and French and British diplomatic and military representatives. HISTORIES of the NIGHT...

... of the state of exception. The essays by Ghabrial and Benoît Challand draw on French imperial history to emphasize the key centrality of race difference to conceptions of personhood and political sovereignty, while the essay by Vanessa Coddacioni underscores their continued relevance for the contemporary...

... . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2012 . Holsinger Donald C. “ Migration, Commerce, and Community: The Mzabis in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Algeria .” Journal of African History 21 , no. 1 ( 1980 ): 61 – 74 . ———. “ Muslim Responses to French Imperialism: An Algerian...

... difference in an imperial system. These imperial histories do not invalidate the modern historical focus on the British and French Empires, their relationships to extraction, violence, cultural nationalisms, and, ultimately, some form of decolonization and nation-state formation. In both French...

...-­Western world. With the exception of several and the French Imperial Archive recent texts, the parochialism in the narration of Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy was published in international events escapes most analysts.1 Siba 2006, the year the French government celebrated...

... years of European imperial he- 1999. gemony through the life and thoughts of three Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time: The Fault of Epi- Algerian “évolués” under French rule. Siba’s main metheus. Vol. 1. Translated...

..., Egypt, Afghanistan, Persia and Arabia” and to “raise arms against French imperialism, which enslaves Morocco, Algeria and other Arab states of Africa” found popular resonance beyond the bounds of Soviet Central Asia, but similarly in British India, where scores of Indian Muslim muhajir s found...

... dies of Egypt and the Hejaz. As an imperial strategy, this approach was neither novel nor particular d to the French empire...

... in Riyadh, a prominent Saudi Islamist explained that in Chad, the French colonial authorities had built paved roads before realizing that only tribal elites owned cars. Roads empowered the elites and maintained strict hierarchies of power. 79 Such imperial companies as Aramco or Bechtel in Saudi Arabia...

... in agents try to use the national hatred the Arab 14 the Arab world itself. In addition to the pub- people have for French imperialism to obtain lication of the clandestine newspaper Nidal al- their fascist goals.16 Sha‘b (People’s Struggle) and the takeover of the renowned...

... forfeited on their behalf. Consequently, them directly to events in Bâ’s novels. accepting the colonizer’s love meant accepting One of the defining characteristics of Africa’s unworthiness to prove the benevolence French imperialism is the discourse of love and of France. the emphasis...

.... Morocco's Saharan Frontiers . Geneva : Droz , 1969 . Wilder Gary . The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2005 . Wilson Alice . “ Ambivalences of Mobility: Rival State Authorities...

... and the produced elsewhere. Writing in the Journal of the specifics of Vialles’s provocative theorization Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1887, P. G. are French, not British, and only tangentially Craigie, secretary of the Central Chamber of Ag- imperial.13 Nevertheless, the resonances between...

... and methods did the French of European Imperialism: sketch for a theory of col- army implement in its twenty-year campaign laboration,” Ronald Robinson delineates the process (1907-1934) to conquer (or “pacify”) Morocco? by which early nineteenth century “informal” impe- · In what ways did French strategy...

... . Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon . New York : Columbia University Press , 2000 . Van der Veer Peter . Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2001...

..., multiple additional imperial-national educational institutions arose in Kabul. In the 1920s and 1930s, the German language and German teachers aggregated at Nejat high school as did the French language and French teachers at Istiqlal high school. Beginning in the late 1940s, American educational interests...