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Algeria - France's Undeclared War (Hardcover)
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Algeria - France's Undeclared War (Hardcover)
Series: Making of the Modern World
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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 of torture and the raising of pro-French
Muslim militias, which tragically polarized choices and framed all
subsequent stages of the conflict.
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