In the 18th century, the Barbary threat became serious. In July 1785, two American boats were returned to Algiers; In the winter of 1793, eleven American ships, their crews in chains, were in the hands of the dey of Algiers. To ensure the freedom of movement of its commercial fleet, the United States was obliged to conclude treaties with the main Barbary states, paying considerable sums of money as a guarantee of non-aggression. With Morocco, treaty of 1786, 30,000 dollars; Tripoli, November 4, 1796, $56,000; Tunis, August 1797, 107,000 dollars. But the most expensive and the most humiliating was with the dey of Algiers, on September 5, 1795, “treaty of peace and friendship” which cost nearly a million dollars (including 525,000 in ransom for freed American slaves). , with an obligation to pay 20,000 dollars upon the arrival of each new consul and 17,000 dollars in annual gifts to senior Algerian officials...
Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter...
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Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives wi...
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (Arabic: عبد القادر بن محي الدين (ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyiddīn), also known...
In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitan...
Constructing freestone buildings on the cheap, Pouillon made a name for himself at the end of the 19...
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"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic...
These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...
60 years ago, in the Algerian desert, an atomic bomb, equivalent to three or even four times Hiroshi...
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The Director Mohammed Soudani comes back to Algeria after 30 years with the photographer Michael von...
In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win ...
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