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Algeria: France´s Undeclared War
Martin Evans
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Description for Algeria: France´s Undeclared War
Paperback. The first full account for a generation of the war against French colonialism in Algeria, setting out the long-term causes of the war from the French occupation of Algeria in 1830 onwards Num Pages: 496 pages, 42 black and white illustrations; 12 maps; 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBJH; HBLW; HBWS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 37. Weight in Grams: 732.
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. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles. An undeclared war in the sense that there was no formal beginning of hostilities, the conflict produced huge tensions that brought down four governments, ended the Fourth ... Read more
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. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles. An undeclared war in the sense that there was no formal beginning of hostilities, the conflict produced huge tensions that brought down four governments, ended the Fourth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199669035
SKU
V9780199669035
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About Martin Evans
Martin Evans is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1997), co-author (with Emmanuel Godin) of France 1815 to 2003 (2004), and co-author (with John Phillips) of Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed (2007). In 2008 Memory of Resistance was translated into French and serialised ... Read more
Reviews for Algeria: France´s Undeclared War
Excellent
The Economist
Masterly
History Today
Original
Le Monde Diplomatique
Evans, a master scholar, has produced a comprehensive narrative.
Foreign Affairs
Strikingly illustrated and using novel archival sources ... scintillating
Literary Review
The Economist
Masterly
History Today
Original
Le Monde Diplomatique
Evans, a master scholar, has produced a comprehensive narrative.
Foreign Affairs
Strikingly illustrated and using novel archival sources ... scintillating
Literary Review