Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation
- ISBN-10
- 0253207460
- ISBN-13
- 9780253207463
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Author
- John Douglas Ruedy
Description
One of the largest countries in Africa and in the Arab world, Algeria in the last half of the twentieth century has stood as a compelling model of national liberation and development. Yet, as the century nears a close, Algeria is beset by a national crisis, its economy in virtual collapse, its single-party political system discredited, and its cultural identity challenged by emergent Islamic fundamentalism. 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 independent statehood. A concluding chapter surveys the developing political and economic crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, which witnessed Algeria at a crossroads between the Islamists and military rule. -- Back cover.
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Other editions
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- 1991
- 184 pages
- Paperback
- C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS