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Algeria in Transitionby Ahmed Aghrout; Redha. M Bougherira; Professor John Keiger
Routledge 2004; US$ 200.00This collection addresses major issues such as political reforms and stability, external relations and social conditions to integration into the world economy. more...
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, Volume 5by Mathieu Deflem
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 113.00Managing Instability in Algeriaby Isabelle Werenfels
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 39.95Using evidence from extensive fieldwork, Isabelle Werenfels explores the relationship between elite dynamics and strategies and the lack of profound political change in Algeria after 1995, when the countrys military rulers returned to electoral processes. more...
Historical Dictionary of Algeriaby Phillip Naylor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2006; US$ 129.99The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is the second largest country in Africa. This, coupled with its location near Europe and its prized hydrocarbons (oil and gas), continues to increase Algeria's international importance. Algeria's fight for liberation from French colonialism, which it finally achieved in 1962, was made famous by Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966) and stands as an inspiration for many nearby countries. However, recent violence caused in part by ideological rivalry between a declining socialism and rising Islamism, illustrates post-colonial peril and tragedy. Today, Algeria endeavors to reconcile its past with its present. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Algeria has undergone extensive... more...
The First Helicopter Warby Charles R. Shrader
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 155.00Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by the Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was able to successfully defeat the Algerian nationalist rebels on the battlefield, while nevertheless losing the war at the conference table. This French success, between 1954 and 1962, was due in large part to the superior logistical system of the French Army and the use of the helicopter to enhance French operational mobility. French counter-mobility measures, particularly the construction of heavily defended interdiction zones on the eastern and western borders of Algeria, proved highly effective against the rebels. Such methods essentially cut off the rebel... more...
Zimbabwe Society & Culture Complete Reportby World Trade Press
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Zimbabwe will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Zimbabwe, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...
Zimbabwe Travel Complete Profileby World Trade Press
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 16.80Whether planning your own trip to Zimbabwe, or planning someone elses, youll be equipped with the all-inclusive travel reportboth of our Travel and Points of Interest reports rolled into one. more...
Apostles of Modernityby Osama Abi-Mershed
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 60.00This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century. more...
Whiteness in Zimbabweby David McDermott Hughes
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 80.00European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, white settlers never comprised more than a tiny minority. Instead of grafting themselves onto local societies, they adopted a strategy of escape. more...
Algeriaby Martin Evans
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 29.95Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles. An undeclared war in the sense that there was no formal beginning of hostilities, the war produced huge tensions that brought down four governments, ended the Fourth Republic in 1958, and mired the French army in accusations of torture and mass human rights abuses. In carefully re-examining the origins and consequences... more...
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