War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958

ISBN-13: 9780198860211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 528 str.

Neil MacMaster

Recenzje

MacMaster has written an important book, which will change perspectives of French Algeria. His work is illuminated with striking case studies and he makes impressive use of the documents that imperial administrators themselves drew up.

O autorze

Neil MacMaster taught at the University of East Anglia from 1971 to 2004. He taught the history of European ideas and popular culture of the 16th to 19th centuries at the University of East Anglia, before changing field to contemporary French politics, European racism, international migration, and Islam. At retirement in 2004 he won a Leverhulme award to continue his work on Algerian and French colonialism. Among his publications are Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62 (1997); with Jim House, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory (2006); and Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'Emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62 (2009).