In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social and political life. For more than a century, Algeria had been legally and administratively part of France; after the bloody war that concluded in 1962, it was other its eight million Algerian residents deprived of French citizenship while hundreds of thousands of French pieds noirs were forced to return to a country that was never home. This...
In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation...
This unprecedented volume shows how and why mid-twentieth-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape today s world. The introduction explores decolonization as both a historical era and an aspirational movement. A rich collection of primary sources combines the voices of the colonized and the colonizers in Africa, Asia, and throughout the world to recapture the intensity and variety of the independence struggles. Organized chronologically and topically, the documents reveal how and why formal decolonization, once an unimaginable prospect to...
This unprecedented volume shows how and why mid-twentieth-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape today s ...
