After completing his research for Democracy in America; Alexis de Tocqueville turned to the French consolidation of its empire in North Africa; which he believed deserving of similar attention. Tocqueville began studying Algerian history and culture; making two trips to Algeria in 1841 and 1846. He quickly became one of France's foremost experts on the country and wrote essays; articles; official letters; and parliamentary reports on such diverse topics as France's military and administrative policies in North Africa; the people of the Maghrib; his own travels in Algeria; and the practice of Islam. Throughout; Tocqueville consistently defended the French imperial project; a position that stands in tension with his admiration for the benefits of democracy he witnessed in America.Although Tocqueville never published a book-length study of French North Africa; his various writings on the subject provide as invaluable a portrait of French imperialism as Democracy in America does of the Early Republic period in American history. In Writings on Empire and Slavery; Jennifer Pitts has selected and translated nine of his most important dispatches on Algeria; which offer startling new insights into both Tocqueville's political thought and French liberalism's attitudes toward the political; military; and moral aspects of France's colonial expansion. The volume also includes six articles Tocqueville wrote during the same period calling for the emancipation of slaves in France's Caribbean colonies.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Disturbing and depressing.By steve ukInsightful and disturbing history of the Nazi obsession with removing any form of life that didn't fit into their masterplan.It is truly horrendous how many of the medical profession willingly and viciously involved themselves in some of the most barbarous acts of violence and murder with little or no conscience. The fact most of them did what they did for purely material gain; position in the party and personal hateful beliefs. The old adage" Everyone has a use; price and weakness" never rang so true.This book should be read alongsideThe Origins of Nazi Genocide.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent book.By LawreVery informative book; I read it for a university paper and ended up loving it and wanting a personal copy for myself.4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. "Nazi Economics of Therapeutic Extermination"By Russell A. Rohde MD"Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine Racial Hygiene;" Johns Hopkins Press; Baltimore 1994; ISBN 0-8018-4824-5 (PB) 296 pgs.; 6" x 9" No index; a few notes B/W photos.In the foreword; Michael Kater warns despite passage of those Nuremberg; Helsinki Tokyo convenants after WW-11 to safeguard medical ethical standards ( prevent hideous medical abuses as done by Nazis Japanese during the war) that many countries of the world persist in violation of these codes of conduct he mentions a few countries including India; Canada; Lebanon Germany in Bavaria. Kater informs us the authors including Ernst Klee are of a "new generation of German Scholars" whose aims are to further rectify uncover Nazi medical irregularities - that some of the Aly Pross writings have been declared controversial "exaggerated or twisted out of all proportion." He details various ways the Jewish physicians were eliminated starting in 1934 replacing them with "Aryan" doctors; noting some 4;500 to 6;000 Jewish doctors were expelled from Germany several hundred committed suicide. Pross states crimes (persecution Holocaust) were not only by "the tiny number of 350 black sheep among the German medical profession...involved in medical crimes; but... many more...directly or indirectly; ...the cream of German medicine; ...professors; ...scientists and researchers." The only plausible explanation to me is that some residuum of the "old generation of German scholars" remain in the medical citadels refuse to leave their chairs for the likes of Aly Pross.The book contains 5 chapters: Introd. by Pross has information on recent attempts to introduce various types of euthanasia a provocative discussion of Robert Lifton's neologistic "doubling" to account for Nazi physicians' mass murdering ("The Nazi Doctors"). Goetz Aly has 3 interesting chapters on medicine against the "useless" discussion of Operation T-4; the Posen diaries of Dr. H. Voss; "Pure Tainted Progress" which examines economic forces driving "therapeutic extermination" including taking all of patients' possessions including dental gold; charging for meals during starvation billing the mandated Insurance coverage after inmates were "treated" (code word for "exterminated"). The final chapter "Selected Letters of Doctor Friedrich Mennecke" by Dr. Chroust appear to have been added on as an after thought; offering one interesting Mennecke tidbit: "Your can tell by looking at the Russian people that they are born and raised right in the dirt; so they don't know any better. These paople are..."Overall; the book is well-written; provides many details on ruminations of the Nazi mindset to evoke rules regulations to promote active killing as "medical euthanasia" with the least amount of discussion protest by the Volk. Aly is a freelance historian political scientist with a personal agenda; but knowing that; it still makes a good read.
