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Title
Sétif, Tébessa, Guelma: the French Army and the Destruction of Roman Monuments in Algeria |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/247848; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/247848/3/01_Greenhalgh_S%25C3%25A9tif%252C_T%25C3%25A9bessa%252C_Guelma%253A_the_2017.pdf.jpg |
Date
2017 |
Author(s)
Greenhalgh, Charles (Michael) |
Contributor(s)
Altekamp, Stefan; Marcks-Jacobs, Carmen; Seiler, Peter |
Abstract
The antique landscape of Algeria ' remains of towns, fortresses, villas ' was radically altered
by the French army, which invaded in 1830, and sought through its building activities to cater for a large number of troops and auxiliary services, and then colonists, recycling materials
from Roman ruins for many of their buildings. The French officer-corps was often educated in the classics, as was the bureaucracy, so accounts of discoveries and destruction
are often comprehensive. Alas, the requirements of technology, war and colonial settlement
' roads, railways, hospitals, barracks ' ensured the destruction of much of Roman Algeria.
Without the guerilla war which plagued the country for decades, and the continuing need
for forts, many of the remains would probably have remained intact. |
Language
en_AU |
Publisher
Topoi |
Relation
Perspektiven der Spolienforschung 2: Zentren und Konjunkturen der Spoliierung (Perspectives of the Spolia Research 2: Centres and Economies of Spolia); Berlin studies of the ancient world; 1st Edition |
Type of publication
Book chapter |
Format
application/pdf |
Rights
© 2017 Edition Topoi; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/deed.en; Creative Commons Licence Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 (CC BY-NC 3.0) |
Identifier
9783981638431 |
Repository
Canberra - Australian National University
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