Algeria : France's Undeclared War
ISBN: 9780199669035 | 0199669031
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/22/2013
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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 ... MORE
An undeclared war in the sense that there was no formal beginning of hostilities, the conflict produced ... MORE
Preface
Some Key Characters
Chronology
Part I: Origins 1830-1945
1. Invasion
2. The Long Hatreds
3. The Making of Algerian Nationalism
Part II: Undeclared War 1945-59
4. Sliding into War
5. 'Algeria is France'
6. Guy Mollet's War
7. The 'Battle of Algiers' and its Aftermath
8. Complex Violence
Part III: Denouement 1959-62
9. Endgame
10. Bloody Conclusion
11. Independence
Postscript
Glossary
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index
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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