6/25/2023 0 Comments Algeria by Martin Evans![]() ![]() On the French side things are not simply reduced to colonial versus anti-colonial, there are Gaullists, settlers who assert their right to colonize, anti-colonialists who argue this betrays French ideals, conscripts versus career soldiers, and socialists. Among the more active Algerian voices of independence were those espousing a pan-Islamist vision, a pan-Arab vision, and those who are communist in outlook. ![]() The book contains the complex sides within Algeria’s desire for self-determination from France they include pro-French sentiments, communist ideologies, notions of wanting to be part of the aspirations of French liberalism, Arab nationalism, and those who shade their grievances in religious language. ![]() The author really delves into the political psychology of all sides of the Algerian War of Independence, and highlights that this would be the longest war of decolonization lasting from 1954 to 1962. My first introduction to him was reading his book, “ Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed,” (Yale University Press, 2008) which left wanting to read more of Evans’s views on North Africa. Portsmouth University professor Martin Evans can always be counted on to provide a nuanced and empathetic look at complex political issues. ![]() Published by Oxford University Press, 2012 304 pages. Algeria: The Undeclared War by Martin Evans. ![]()
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