Abstract
The article studies the ecological discourse as a part of the French imperial discourse. It examines representations of “alien” nature, North African one in particular, in imperial narratives and the specifics of the colonial expansion agitators’ ecological thinking. Author concludes that pathos for the new lands’ development was the integral part of the French imperial discourse, however, no author gave univocal representations of African nature.
Keywords
Imperial idea, ecological history, North African nature, Algeria, space of an empire, P. Leroy-Beaulieu