Empire and Catastrophe - Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France Since 1954

Spencer D. Segalla examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores how environmental catastrophes impacted the dissolution of France’s empire in North Africa.
 

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Algeria, 1954
Chapter 3. Fréjus 1959, under Water and at War
Chapter 4. Poison, Paralysis, and the United States in Morocco, 1959
Chapter 5. Death, Diplomacy, and Reconstruction in Agadir, 1960
Chapter 6. The Soul of a City
Chapter 7. Rupture, Nostalgia, and Representation
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Humanity and Environment
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Spencer D. Segalla is a professor of history at the University of Tampa. He is the author of The Moroccan Soul: French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912–1956 (Nebraska, 2009).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Spencer D Segalla, Spencer D. Segalla
• Editore: Nebraska
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781496237736
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3773-6
• Pagine: 306
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Peso: 449 g
• Serie: France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia