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This book studies the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence to uncover the long-term ability of this community to sustain an autonomous political culture.
Sommario
- Introduction
- Part I: The Dualism of the Colonial State, Indirect Rule, and the Crisis of the Commune Mixte System
- 1: Separate Worlds? European domination of the Chelif plain
- 2: Separate Worlds? Peasant society in the mountains
- 3: The Caids and the Communes Mixtes System
- 4: The Janus-faced politics of the Caids, c.1936 to 1954
- 5: Lucien Paye's Commune Reform: the failure of the peasant modernisation programme, 1944-1948
- Part II: Peasant Political Mobilization and Resistance, c. 1932-1954
- 6: Fraction Resistance and Everyday Politics
- 7: The Communist Party and Peasant Mobilization, c. 1932-1948
- 8: Peasant Organization in the Urban Centres of the Chelif Region
- 9: The Battle for the Douars and the Djemâa elections of 1947
- 10: The Nationalists go Underground: PPA Organization in the Ouarsenis mountains, 1948-1954
- 11: Popular Islam: The Rural Battleground
- Part III: Organization of the Early Maquis: Rebel Governance and the Formation of the FLN Counter-State
- 12: From Earthquake to 'Red Maquis', September 1954 to June 1956
- 13: The Zitoufi Maquis
- 14: Organization of the early ALN guerrilla, 1954-1957
- 15: Creating the FLN counter-state
- Part IV: Operate Pilote: Anthropology goes to war, 1956-1958
- 16: The Genesis of Operation Pilote
- 17: Psychological warfare and the Dahra peasants
- 18: The Arzew training camp: anthropology or 'brain-washing'?
- 19: Modernity or Neo-Tribalism? Third-Force strategies in the Ouarsenis
- 20: The Regroupements camps and the collapse of Pilote 1
- Conclusion
Info autore
Neil MacMaster taught at the University of East Anglia from 1971 to 2004. He taught the history of European ideas and popular culture of the 16th to 19th centuries at the University of East Anglia, before changing field to contemporary French politics, European racism, international migration, and Islam. At retirement in 2004 he won a Leverhulme award to continue his work on Algerian and French colonialism. Among his publications are Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62 (1997); with Jim House, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory (2006); and Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'Emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62 (2009).
Riassunto
This book studies the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence to uncover the long-term ability of this community to sustain an autonomous political culture.
Testo aggiuntivo
MacMaster has written an important book, which will change perspectives of French Algeria. His work is illuminated with striking case studies and he makes impressive use of the documents that imperial administrators themselves drew up.
