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Informationen zum Autor James McDougall is Assistant Professor in History at Princeton University. He has edited Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa (2003). Klappentext Colonialism denied Algeria its own history; nationalism reinvented it. James McDougall charts the creation of that history through colonialism to independence! exploring the struggle to define Algerias past. He analyses the relationship between history! Islamic culture and nationalism in Algeria. He confronts prevailing notions that nationalism emancipated Algerian history. Instead! nationalism was a new kind of domination! in which multiple memories and possible futures were effaced. This exceptional book will be read by colonial historians and social theorists as well as by scholars of the Middle East and North Africa. Zusammenfassung Colonialism denied Algeria its own history; nationalism reinvented it. James McDougall charts the creation of that history through colonialism to independence! exploring the relationship between history! Islamic culture and nationalism in Algeria. This book will be read by colonial historians! social theorists! scholars of the Middle East and North Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; The language of history; Prologue: Tunis, 1899; 1. The margins of a world in fragments; 2. The conquest conquered?; 3. The doctors of new religion; 4. Saint cults and ancestors; 5. Arabs and Berbers?; Epilogue: Algiers, 2001; The invention of authenticity; Bibliography.
