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Algeria: France’s Undeclared War (Making of the Modern World)

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Invaded in 1830, populated by a million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria used to be different from other French colonies because it used to be administered as an integral a 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 used to be one of the vital longest and so much violent of the decolonization struggles.

An undeclared war within the sense that there used to be 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 used to be the Socialist led Republican Front, in power from January 1956 until Would possibly 1957, which used to be the defining moment within the war. Predicated at the belief within the universal civilizing mission of the Fourth Republic, coupled with the conviction that Algerian nationalism used to be feudal and religiously fanatical in character, the Republican Front dramatically intensified the war within the spring of 1956.

Drawing upon up to now classified archival sources in addition to 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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