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Algeria: France's Undeclared War
Contributor(s): Evans, Martin (Author)

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ISBN: 0199669031     ISBN-13: 9780199669035
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Published: March 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - North
- History | Europe - France
- History | Military - Wars & Conflicts (other)
Dewey: 965.046
Series: Making of the Modern World
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" L (1.58 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
- Cultural Region - French
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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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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