A failed transformation, 1775-1830 -- Colonial-era border crossing, 1830-1911 -- The last jihad and the end of Hijra, 1911-1920 -- Exchange and innovation in the revolutionary era -- Algerians in an age of globalization -- Conclusion: the dynamics of fear and hope on a frontier …
Algerian diaspora is examined from reasons based on military service, asylum seeking, captivity and imprisonment, travel for commerce, study, or religious purpose, and labor migration. The author reviews these factors and provides an in-depth analysis of the results of these cro…
This account of Algeria through its migratory history begins in the last quarter of the eighteenth century by looking at forced migration through the slave trade. It moves through the colonial era and continues into Algeria's turbulent postcolonial experience.
Introduction -- Resuscitating the Battle of Algiers : the politics of race in the War on Iraq -- Mapping national identity and unrealized union : Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes -- Hidden maps of victimization : the haunting key to colonial victimization in Caché -- Creating an old…
Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern France. Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledg…
The wretched of the earth
by Bhabha, Homi K., Fanon, Frantz, West, Cornel, Sartre, Jean-Paul
"Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychol…
"Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychol…
Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of rese…
Ecologies, societies, cultures and the state, 1516-1830 -- Conquest, resistance, and accomodation, 1830-1911 -- The means of domination, 1830-1944 -- The politics of loyalty and dissent, 1912-1942 -- Revolution and civil war, 1942-1962 -- The unfinished revolution, 1962-1992 -- …
A history of Algeria
An essential introduction to the history of Algeria, spanning a period of five hundred years.