The Colonization of Names. Symbolic Violence and France’s Occupation of Algeria, Paperback/***

This groundbreaking history of personal names in nineteenth-century Algeria sheds new light on the symbolic violence of renaming and the relationship between language and colonialism. Publisher: Columbia University Press Author(s): Benjamin (University of Texas at Austin) Brower Illustration(s): 6 black-and-white photographs and drawings Number of pages: 360 Publication date: 2025 Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 23 Cover type: Paperback / softback