title: Algerian orphans and colonial Christianity in Algeria, 1866-1939.
abstract: This article considers the exceptional fate of the orphan survivors of the great Algerian demographic crisis of the late 1860s who subsequently converted to Catholicism. Using a prosopographical approach, this study seeks to highlight the complexities of national identity in France and to explore some of the racial tensions emerging in Algeria in the late nineteenth century.
authors.affiliation: University of Manchester.
authors.forename: Bertrand
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Taithe
mesh_terms: D000462:Algeria / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D002655:Child Custody / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D054540:Child, Orphaned / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003710:Demography; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009111:Local Government / Q000266:history; D011822:Race Relations / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D012067:Religion / Q000266:history; D012924:Social Conditions / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012933:Social Identification