Algeria : France's Undeclared War
ISBN: 9780192803504 | 0192803506
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/13/2012
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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
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 ... 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 ... MORE
Introduction: the Battle of Algiers
Part I: Origins
1. The Long Hatreds 1830 - 1945
2. Sliding into Conflict 1946 - 1954
Part II: War
3. 'Algeria is France' 1954 - 1956
4. Guy Mollet's War 1956 - 1957
5. From the Battle of Algiers to return of de Gaulle 1957 - 1958
6. War Amongst the People
7. Political Denouement 1959-1962
Part III: Consequences
8. Bloody End 1962
9. Contested Legacy 1962-2008
Conclusion
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, co-author (with Emmanuel Godin) of France 1815 to 2003, and co-author (with John Phillips) of Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed. In 2008 Memory of Resistance was translated into French and serialised in the Algerian press. He has written for the Independent, the Times Higher Education Supplement, BBC History Magazine and the Guardian, and is a regular contributor to History Today. In 2007-08 he was a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow at the British Academy.
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