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"Fascinating insights into the origins of Algerian independence." --History Today
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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 war produced huge tensions that brought down four governments, ended the Fourth Republic in 1958, and mired the French army in accusations of torture and mass human rights abuses. In carefully re-examining the origins and consequences of the conflict, Martin Evans argues that it was the Socialist led Republican Front, in power from January 1956 until May 1957, which was the defining moment in the war. Predicated on the belief in the universal civilizing mission of the Fourth Republic, coupled with the conviction that Algerian nationalism was feudal and religiously fanatical in character, the Republican Front dramatically intensified the war in the spring of 1956. Drawing upon previously classified archival sources as well as new oral testimonies, 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 oftorture and the raising of pro-French Muslim militias, which tragically polarized choices and framed all subsequent stages of the conflict.
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Excellent book, Feb 14 2012
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This review is from: Algeria: France's Undeclared War (Hardcover)
I am born in 1960 in the Paris area and my parents had lived in Algeria shortly before my birth. A lot of people around me have had something to do with Algeria, two of my high school friends were from repatriated - ex settlers - families. One of my college friend too. My father in law was a soldier in Algeria. Also when I spent a month doing an internship on a farm in Aveyron in the South of France I met men who had fought in Algeria. So Algeria was present in the life of many people whom I know, but what had happened there, why the French had settled Algeria, and how the independence movement in Algeria developed was not clear at all for me.This book is extremely well written and gives a clear perspective on Algeria since the time of the colonization. There is something to learn in this book, maybe the Israel/Palestine problem is similar to France/Algeria - with the added problem that some Palestinians want also the pre-1967 Israel territory.
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