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Repeating Revolutions: The French Revolution and the Algerian War

Repeating Revolutions: The French Revolution and the Algerian War

Johnson, Timothy Scott

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France

African HistoryFrench HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032435984
ISBN13: 9781032435985
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 16 2025
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France's Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria's struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The French Empire justified their claims over Algeria in part through messages of universal progress marked by the political visions tied to the French Revolution. Supporters of Algerian independence confronted those historical claims by identifying the Algerian cause with the French Revolution and by highlighting the apparent contradictions between the history of 1789 and imperial rule. Far-right activists, meanwhile, saw the movement to decolonize Algeria as another manifestation of the revolutionary disorder stemming from the French Revolution. Behind these analogies lay broader changes in the study of North African society and contemporary political relevance of the French Revolution. The focus on analogies to the French Revolution puts different sets of actors in conversation with one another and offers a fresh take on how people's experiences and expectations changed throughout the Algerian War.

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