After Barbary

<p><b><i>After Barbary</i></b><b> explores the connection between the United States and North Africa between the Barbary Wars of the early nineteenth century and the era of European decolonization after World War II.</b> Timothy Mason Roberts offers a new approach to the study of empires highlighting the significance of Algeria in French-American relations from France's first occupation of the country through the first years of independence of the Republic of Algeria.</p><p>As Roberts demonstrates imperial authorities in Washington DC; Paris; and Algiers rarely collaborated intentionally in institutional partnerships or alliances. Rather American French and Algerian politicians soldiers writers and revolutionaries--often acting at cross purposes and across political and cultural boundaries--sought power by imagining and constructing Algeria as a fissured dynamic transimperial space. Focusing on issues of settler colonialism irregular warfare racialized citizenship territorial incorporation and pan-African identity <i>After Barbary</i> shows how French Algeria helped make the American and French empires.</p>