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The Invention of Decolonization - The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
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The Invention of Decolonization - The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
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In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political
structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts
that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a
revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social and
political life. For more than a century, Algeria had been legally
and administratively part of France; after the bloody war that
concluded in 1962, it was other—its eight million Algerian
residents deprived of French citizenship while hundreds of
thousands of French pieds noirs were forced to return to a country
that was never home. This rupture violated the universalism that
had been the essence of French republican theory since the late
eighteenth century. Shepard contends that because the amputation of
Algeria from the French body politic was accomplished illegally and
without explanation, its repercussions are responsible for many of
the racial and religious tensions that confront France today. In
portraying decolonization as an essential step in the inexorable
"tide of history," the French state absolved itself of
responsibility for the revolutionary change it was effecting. It
thereby turned its back not only on the French of Algeria—Muslims
in particular—but also on its own republican principles and the
1958 Constitution. From that point onward, debates over
assimilation, identity, and citizenship—once focused on the
Algerian "province/colony"—have troubled France itself. In
addition to grappling with questions of race, citizenship, national
identity, state institutions, and political debate, Shepard also
addresses debates in Jewish history, gender history, and queer
theory.
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