A history of violence in the early Algerian colony / William Gallois, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History, Exeter University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallois, William, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French.

History.

Violence.

Algeria--History--French Expedition, 1830.

Algeria.

Algeria--History--1830-1962.

Violence--Algeria--History--19th century.

French--Algeria--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

vii, 207 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French Army in Africa. Its coverage ranges from detailed case studies of massacres to the question of whether a genocide took place in Algeria. It begins by asking whether French brutality in Algeria was a consequence of Europeans mirroring a culture of atrocities they believed they would find on 'the Barbary Coast', and goes on to study the manner in which an exterminatory policy was agreed upon by Ministers, generals and soldiers in the campaigns of the 1840s. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 'Algeria': The Archaeology of Barbary 25

3 L'armée d'Afrique 52

4 Violence in Algeria, 1830-37 81

5 The Evolution of the Razzia, 1837-47 100

6 A Future Painted in Sombre Colours 122

7 An Algerian Genocide? 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780230294318

0230294316

OCLC:

825047269