The justification of the colonialism fenomenon in the book of Stephane Gsell

Abstract

The writings on North Africa were often received by foreign pens, beginning with the sources and thus the references that were elaborated on all matters relating to the region's history. However, most of these studies relied on means and objectives, the main purpose of which was to justify the colonial phenomenon. And in dealing with examples of this, we cannot go beyond the historian Stefan Gzell, most of whose authors aim is to justify French colonialism by Roman colonialism, as a factor of civilization and complementary to its predecessor while creating distortions affecting local history in general And so in this article we will rely on the descriptive and analytical methodologies and stop with the issue of linking the history of French colonialism to Roman at Algeria, How the second phase was considered complementary to the first phase of Algeria's European history In view of the fact that Gzell has drawn attention to the importance of the historical heritage of linking the ancient period to modernity, which makes the Islamic period a vacuum that the Maghreb has generally lived in