Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Library Staff ubP lications and Research Library Publications 5-1-2015 Between Two Fires: The Origins of Settler Colonialism in the United States and French Algeria Ashley Sanders Claremont University Consortium Recommended Citation Sanders, Ashley, "Between Two Fires: The Origins of Settler Colonialism in the United States and French Algeria" (2015). Library Staff Publications and Research. Paper 32. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/library_staff/32 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Library Publications at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Staff ubP lications and Research by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ! ! ! BETWEEN TWO FIRES: THE ORIGINS OF SETTLER COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRENCH ALGERIA By Ashley Sanders A DISSERTATION Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of History – Doctor of Philosophy 2015 ! ABSTRACT' ! BETWEEN TWO FIRES: THE ORIGINS OF SETTLER COLONIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRENCH ALGERIA By Ashley Sanders This dissertation is a comparative study of the establishment of settler colonies in the American Midwest (1778-1795) and French colonial Algeria (1830-1848). It examines how interactions between the Indigenous populations, colonists, colonial administrators, the military, and the métropole shaped their development and advances the theory of settler colonialism. This study centers on the first fifteen to twenty years of conquest/occupation in the American Midwest, focusing specifically on southern Illinois and Indiana, and the province of Constantine, Algeria. Despite differences in geography, relative size of the military presence and Indigenous demographics, the process of establishing settler colonies in both locations followed similar trajectories.