The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France

by Todd Shepard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080147454X
• ISBN13: 9780801474545
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher