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Claire Eldridge - From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the <i>Pied-Noir</i> and <i>Harki</i> Communities, 1962-2012 - 9780719087233 - V9780719087233
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From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962-2012

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Description for From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962-2012 Hardback. This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war. Series Editor(s): Cross, Maire; Hopkin, David. Series: Studies in Modern French History. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 maps, Maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 223 x 31. Weight in Grams: 558.
This book explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisation. It focuses on the million French settlers - pieds-noirs - and the tens of thousands of harkis - the French army's native auxiliaries - who felt compelled to migrate to France when colonial rule ended. Challenging the idea that Algeria was a 'forgotten' war that only returned to French public attention in the 1990s, this study reveals a dynamic picture of memory activism undertaken continuously since 1962 by grassroots communities connected to this ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies in Modern French History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719087233
SKU
V9780719087233
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About Claire Eldridge
Claire Eldridge is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leeds -- .

Reviews for From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962-2012
'Eldridge's book provides an outstanding model to build on.' Darcie Fontaine, University of South Florida, H-France Review Vol. 17 (March 2017), No. 53 'All in all, Eldridge has provided us with a fuller understanding of the evolution in the postcolonial terrain of memories and by extension, the terrain of identities constitutive of French society, which emerged ... Read more

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