2001
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3.73
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304
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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. 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.
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Benjamin Stora
Author · 9 books
Benjamin Stora, né le 2 décembre 1950 à Constantine en Algérie1,2, est un historien français, professeur à l'université Paris-XIII et inspecteur général de l'Éducation nationale depuis septembre 2013. Ses recherches portent sur l'histoire de l'Algérie et notamment la guerre d'Algérie3,4,5, et plus largement sur l'histoire du Maghreb contemporain, ainsi que sur l'empire colonial français et l'immigration en France. Il assure la présidence du conseil d'orientation de la Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration depuis août 2014.
