num_pages: 301
description: Alarmed by a growing Muslim population and a reputedly weak imperial administration European settlers in Algeria in the early twentieth century increasingly turned to fascism in order to seize power and create an authoritarian regime. This study investigates the extreme-rightist leagues that arose in this context with particular attention to the rabid xenophobia directed at local Jews and Muslims who were derisively branded 'indigenes' and cast as anti-colonial and left-wing actors. In their attempts to preserve European hegemony and a subjugated pool of unskilled labor these groups helped to cement a clear racial hierarchy and definitively shaped Algeria's colonial history.
language: None
title: French Colonial Fascism: The Extreme Right in Algeria, 1919-1939
publisher: Palgrave MacMillan