Invention of Decolonization The Algerian War and the Remaking of France

Name: Invention of Decolonization The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
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ISBN: 9780801474545

ISBN-10: 080147454X

ISBN-13: 9780801474545

Edition: 2008

Authors: Todd Shepard

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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 rupture violated the universalism that had been the essence of French republican theory since the late…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.012



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Chronology of French Occupation of Algeria


Introduction



The Making and Forgetting of French Algeria



Muslim French Citizens from Algeria: A Short History



Inventing Decolonization



The "Tide of History" versus the Laws of the Republic



Forgetting French Algeria



Between France and Algeria



Making Algerians



Repatriation Rather Than Aliyah: The Jews of France and the End of French Algeria



Veiled "Muslim" Women, Violent Pied Noir Men, and the Family of France: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnic Difference



The Exodus and After



Repatriating the Europeans



Rejecting the Muslims



The Post-Algerian Republic


Conclusion: Forgetting Algerian France


Bibliography of Primary Sources


Index