| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Tocqueville's works on Algeria should be interpreted in connection with his theory of democracy based on his American experience. He found in the colonization of North Africa a proper target of French national ambition, which was withering away in the spread of democratic individualism and materialism. He even compared it to the American colonization of the West (“Alger is Cincinnati in Africa”). Second, military adventure in Algeria gave a solution to Tocqueville’s worry about the danger of a big army in democratic countries, for it provided for the French soldiers a fine arena of action, a safety valve for their frustration, which would prevent them from causing domestic turmoil. Tocqueville also made a clear distinction between military conquest and colonization and tried to make his own plan of colonization.
Tocqueville’s theoretical inquiry predicted to some extent the building of the French colonial empire, which would start on a full scale under the Third Republic.
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