The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954

An examination of French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chronology

Introduction
1. L'Algerie francaise: An Imagined Community?
2. Colonial Schools and the Transmission of French Culture
3. The Colonial Press and the Construction of Greater France
4. An Indigenous Perspective on France and Frenchness
5. A Colonial Scale of Frenchness
6. Algerianite: The Emergence of a Colonial Identity
Conclusion

Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index

About the author

Jonathan Gosnell

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Gosnell
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2002
• EAN: 9781580461054
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-105-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)