Algeria: France's Undeclared War
Title | Algeria: France's Undeclared War |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2012 |
Authors | Evans, Martin |
Number of Pages | 457 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
City | Oxford |
Abstract | This work examines the depth and scale of the colonization process and explains why the Algerian War was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles, bringing down four governments, ending the Fourth Republic, and miring the French Army in accusations of torture and mass human rights abuses. Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. This book underlines the conflict of values between the Republican Front and Algerian nationalism, explaining how this clash produced patterns of thought and action, such as the institutionalization of torture and the raising of pro-French Muslim militias, which tragically polarized choices and framed all subsequent stages of the conflict. |
URL | https://books.google.com/books?id=0LEZ_iW5vAAC&printsec=frontcover |
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