{"product_id":"markets-of-civilization-9781478018506","title":"Markets of Civilization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMarkets of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e 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 both 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 princ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMarkets of Civilization \u003c\/i\u003emakes for a fascinating addition both to the literature on Algeria and also to the broader literature on racial formations and racialization. . . . Well worth the read.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Marc Lynch * Marc Lynch *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarkets of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed scholarly intervention into the connections between race, capital and economics, and enables us to think about racial capitalism outside of, but very much connected to, a Euro-American framework. An essential read for anyone interested in the story of capitalism as others experienced it.” -- Usman Butt * Middle East Monitor *\u003cbr\u003e“Davis’s intervention brings our attention to an underappreciated historiographical domain of racial capitalism’s inception, evolution and contestation (i.e., the late French empire). . . . Davis subtly adds the dimension of religion to a conversation that has been dominated by ethnic- and colour-based understandings of racial capitalism’s historical origins and contemporary realities.” -- Jacob Mundy * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMarkets of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to the field of Algerian history through its explication of the entanglements of racial, economic, and colonial imperatives. . . . I recommend the book to scholars and students interested in the study’s widely-ranging themes, including racial capitalism in the Middle East, the connections between economic and intellectual histories, the enduring nature of colonial, racial thinking, and how post-independence Arab regimes negotiated and remade older colonial ideas and policies.\" -- Sara Rahnama * International Journal of Middle East Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A grounded and challenging effort to revive an older Third-Worldist scholarly tradition on Algeria. ... Davis’s \u003ci\u003eMarkets of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for those interested in Algerian history, colonialism, and contemporary debates on Islam and Islamophobia, as well as scholars examining the twin social theories of race and political economy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mohammed Salih * SAW Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcronyms  ix\u003cbr\u003e Transliteration Note  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Settling the Colony  19\u003cbr\u003e 2. A New Algeria Rising  43\u003cbr\u003e 3. Decolonization and the Constantine Plan  69\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eFellahs\u003c\/i\u003e into Peasants  96\u003cbr\u003e 5. Communism in a White Burnous  119\u003cbr\u003e 6. Today's Utopia Is Tomorrow's Reality  144\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  167\u003cbr\u003e Notes  177\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  227\u003cbr\u003e Index  259","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409008664919,"sku":"9781478018506","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018506.jpg?v=1730505073","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/markets-of-civilization-9781478018506","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}