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  • Engels
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  • 9780300177220
  • 14 januari 2008
  • Adobe ePub
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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 post-independence generation needed new heroes, and some found them in Osama bin Laden and the rising Islamist movement. Evans and Phillips trace the complex roots of this alienation, arguing that Algeria's predicament-political instability, pressing economic and social problems, bad governance, a disenfranchised youth-is emblematic of an arc of insecurity stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. Looking back at the pre-colonial and colonial periods, they place Algeria's complex present into historical context, demonstrating how successive governments have manipulated the past for their own ends. The result is a fractured society with a complicated and bitter relationship with the Western powers-and an increasing tendency to export terrorism to France, America, and beyond.

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14 januari 2008
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Martin Evans
Tweede Auteur
John Phillips
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John Phillips
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Yale University Press

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165 mm
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241 mm
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766 g

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  • Algeria: France's Undeclared War

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    It’s strange that a war that took place almost 60 years ago feels like it’s ripped from the headlines of today’s news. Change some of the names and the facts, and Algeria: France’s Undeclared War could be the story of the Egypt uprising or the ongoing Libyan revolution. And perhaps, in some ways, it’s because the nature of revolution hasn’t changed and perhaps it never will.
    It is a complex multilayered war with ambiguous and uncertain moral grounds that compromise both sides of the revolution.
    There was no clear front line, there was fighting everywhere. The enemy was invisible and elusive.
    What amazed me was the revelation that the French would inflate the numbers of enemy killed in battle so that prisoners could be tortured and then shot the following day!
    By October 1962 the exodus of Europeans was completed. 99% of the settlers returned to France, too afraid to remain in Algeria. To this day at least 17 million people are still directly affected by the war.

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