The first full account for a generation of the war against French colonialism in Algeria, setting out the long-term causes of the war from the French occupation of Algeria in 1830 onwards
This work addresses French and indigenous elements in Algerian history since colonisation: land reform and modernisation under French rule, the pressures to which both communities were subjected, and the emergence of political confrontation ...
This interdisciplinary volume sheds light on these and other issues, offering new insights into the history, politics, society and culture of modern Algeria and its historical relationship with France.
This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Algeria covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography.
This book briefly examines the history, people, and environment of the country of Algeria.
The Algerians eat yogurt and drink whey , but it is the Maltese who supply goat's milk from the goats they herd , and it is the French who make cheese and butter . Tobacco is one of the few commodities dominated by the Algerians from ...
In his personal account, Algeria: Struggle for Truth and Justice, he follows French and French Algerian sources that argue that le pouvoir, generals of the security forces, the DRS, manipulating armed Islamists, were behind the ...
In recent years Algeria has experienced profound changes in its economic and political life, including a major privatization programme aimed at dismantling the powerful state companies that once dominated Algeria's...
John Ruedy provides the first up-to-date history of Algeria's evolution from a segmented tribal order under the Ottoman Empire through five generations of French colonial exploitation, to an eight-year war of liberation, and finally to ...
How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Algeria is a large country with a fascinating past and a troubled present.