Algeria, 1830-2000
Subtitle: a short history
By: Benjamin Stora ; translated by Jane Marie Todd ; foreword by William B. Quandt.
Edition: Revised and updated.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962; Algeria -- History -- 1962-1990; Algeria -- History -- 1990-
Description: "Algeria, 1830-2000 is a comprehensive narrative history of the country. Benjamin Stora, widely recognized as the leading expert on Algeria, presents the story of this turbulent area from the start of formal French colonialism in the early nineteenth century, through the prolonged war for independence in the latter 1950s, to the internal strife of the present day."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-273) and index.
Translation of: Histoire de l'Algérie coloniale, 1830-1954 ; Histoire de la guerre d'Algérie, 1954-1962 ; Histoire de l'Algérie depuis l'indépendance.
Table of contents: title: The "phony war" (November 1954-July 1955); title: The open war (August 1955-December 1956); title: The cruel war (1957); title: The war of the Algerians (1954-1958); title: De Gaulle and the war (1958-1959); title: The wars within the war (1960-1961); title: The war and French society (1955-1962); title: The terrible end of war; title: A war's toll; title: Summer 1962; title: Ben Bella's Algeria (1962-1965); title: Boumédienne, the state, and the institutions; title: Economic choices and foreign policy (1965-1978); title: Society and culture in Algeria (1962-1982); title: The jamming of the system (1979-1988); title: The crisis of October 1988 and its consequences; title: Algeria at war.