'They Declared War on Fish!' An Eighteenth-Century Algerian Folk Poem on the 1770 Danish-Norwegian Bombardment of Algiers.
This article presents and analyses an eighteenth-century Algerian folk poem (malḥūn) about the 1770 Danish-Norwegian bombardment of Algiers, referred to in Algerian sources as 'The Poem of the Bomb'. By reading this poem in conjunction with other previously overlooked late eighteenth-century Algeria...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 247 - 268 |
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