Algeria Anger of the Dispossessed

Name: Algeria Anger of the Dispossessed
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ISBN: 9780300108811

ISBN-10: 0300108818

ISBN-13: 9780300108811

Edition: 2007

Authors: Martin Evans, John Phillips

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After liberating itself from French colonial rule in one of the twentieth century's most brutal wars of independence, Algeria became a standard-bearer for the non-aligned movement. By the 1990s, however, its revolutionary political model had collapsed, degenerating into a savage conflict between the military and Islamist guerillas that killed some 200,000 citizens. In this lucid and gripping account, Martin Evans and John Phillips explore Algeria's recent and very bloody history, demonstrating how the high hopes of independence turned into anger as young Algerians grew increasingly alienated. Unemployed, frustrated by the corrupt military regime, and excluded by the West, the…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.96" long x 0.14" tall
Weight: 1.694

For more than four decades, John E. Phillips has been an avid crappie fisherman, first tagging along behind his dad and older brother when he could only toddle. Phillips has gathered information for his newspaper columns, magazine articles and books for the past 20 years. The award-winning author of 12 other books, Phillips has spent many years afield crappie fishing.



Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Glossary


List of Illustrations


Preface: Why Algeria?


Introduction: The Role of the Past in Algerian History



Dissident Landscape



Forced Marriage: French Algeria 1830-1962



Darling of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1962-78



Black October



Political Islam



Algerians Agony



The Algerian Question



The New Imperialism and the War on Terror


Afterword: The Anger That Will Not Go Away


Notes


Bibliography


Index