Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria

by Joshua Cole

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Joshua Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people.

Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501739417
• ISBN13: 9781501739415
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher