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France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation

France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation

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ISBN10: 1477328432
ISBN13: 9781477328439
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jun 11 2024
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.34 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.13
Language: English

An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter's independence.

While most related studies concentrate on the colonial era and Algeria's War of Independence, France and Algeria details the nations' postcolonial relationship. Phillip Naylor provides a philosophical approach, contending that France reformulated, rather than repudiated, essential strategic values during decolonization. It thus continued to pursue grandeur and independence, especially with regard to the Third World and Algeria, an essentialism that expedited France's postcolonial transformation. But as a new nation, Algeria needed to pursue the existential project of self-definition. It became involved in state-building while also promulgating socialism, and it recognized how French oil concessions in the Sahara impeded its independence, leading to the industry's postcolonial decolonization. Finally, the postcolonial relationship has featured a human dimension involving immigrants, pieds-noirs (colonial settlers), and harkis (Algerian soldiers loyal to France), all of them central to bilateral relations.

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