France, the United States, and the Algerian War / Irwin M. Wall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Irwin M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--France.

United States.

France--Foreign relations--United States.

France.

Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Diplomatic history.

Algeria.

France--Foreign relations--1945-1958.

France--Foreign relations--1958-1969.

United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 335 p. ) ill., map ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Irwin M. Wall unravels the intertwining threads of the protracted agony of France's war with Algeria, America's role in the fall of the Fourth Republic, the long shadow of Charles de Gaulle, and the decisive postwar power of the United States. At the heart of this study is an analysis of how Washington helped bring de Gaulle to power and a revisionist account of his Algerian policy. Departing from widely held interpretations of the Algerian war, Wall approaches the conflict as an international diplomatic crisis whose outcome was primarily dependent on French relations with Washington, the NATO alliance, and the United Nations, rather than on military engagement."--Jacket.

Contents:

The United States and the Algerian War

The Suez crisis

The degeneration of the regime

The United States, Great Britain, and the Sakiet crisis

The fall of the republic and the coming of de Gaulle

The United States, Algeria and De Gaulle's diplomacy

De Gaulle reconsidered.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-319) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-92568-8

OCLC:

1414457681