Algeria, 1830-2000
A Short History
Cornell University Press · Print & ebook · March 2, 2004
"This book translates three of Stora's published works into one concise, scholarly, and welcome survey....
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- Who it’s for
- Benjamin Stora traces Algeria from French colonialism in 1830 to the country’s internal strife in 2000.
- Genres
- North African History, Colonialism & Its Aftermath, African Politics
- Published
- Cornell University Press, March 2, 2004
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"This book translates three of Stora's published works into one concise, scholarly, and welcome survey.... Accessible to the nonspecialist.... Highly recommended for all levels."—Choice Foreword by William B. Quandt A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher.
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This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stage—second in size among African nations, Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves. 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. This book adapts and updates three short volumes published originally in French by La Découverte. For this English edition, Stora has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (1830-1954) and has revised the final section to bring the volume up to date.
Algeria, 1830–2000
Benjamin Stora traces Algeria from French colonialism in 1830 to the country’s internal strife in 2000.
Come here for
- Algeria’s history from French colonial rule through internal strife
- The prolonged war for independence in the 1950s
Expect
- A narrative history spanning 1830–2000
- A new chapter on the colonial period, 1830–1954
Where it sits
| North African History | 99% |
|---|---|
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 55% |
| African Politics | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- North African History
- French History
- Colonialism & Its Aftermath
- African Politics
- Authors
- Benjamin Stora, Jane Marie Todd, William B. Quandt
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- March 2, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- North African History