The Algerian War, The Algerian Revolution,Natalya Vince

-About this book

Between 1954 and 1962, one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century took place. As French rule came to an end in Indochina in 1954, Morocco and Tunisia in 1956 and in West and Equatorial Africa in 1960, France clung on in Algeria, the oldest of its African colonial possessions.

The Algerian National Liberation Front (Front de libération nationale, jabhat al-tahrīr al-watani, FLN) sought to chip away at French will to remain through rural and urbanguerrilla warfare in both Algeria and mainland France, and by actively campaigning to persuade the international community that French rule in Algeria was illegitimate.

 In response, successive French governments sent a total of around two million soldiers, the vast majority of whom were conscripts, to fight a war through tactics which included aerial bombing, massive population displacement, army-led police operations and intensive propaganda efforts to ‘win hearts and minds’ within the local population.

The aim of this book, then, is twofold. Firstly, it aims to provide an overview of the key approaches to and debates about the events of the Algerian War/the Algerian Revolution. In particular, it focuses on how these debates have been revisited in the most recent scholarship. Secondly, it seeks to provide insights into the contexts in which these approaches have emerged—that is, how debates about the past are connected to present concerns—in order to provide readers with tools to navigate and decode the increasingly vast quantities of information available at their fingertips.

This, then, is also a book about historiography, and its central importance in our supposedly globally connected information age, as hierarchies of knowledge production are both flattened and reinforced.

-Contents
1 Context and Historiography
2 Origins, 1914–54
3 The Course of the War, 1954–62
4 Legacies, 1962–2020
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :13 décembre 2020

N.de pages : 226 pages

ISBN-13 : 978-3030542634

Poids de l’article : 505 g

Dimensions : 15.49 x 23.5 cm

Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan

Langue: Anglais