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"In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across the Atlantic and stormed the beaches of French Morocco. Seventy-four hours later, the Americans controlled the country and one of the most valuable wartime ports: Casablanca. In the years preceding, Casablanca had evolved from an exotic travel destination to a key military target after France's surrender to Germany. Jewish refugees from Europe poured...
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This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities,...
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In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its only large-scale settler colony. Deftly reconstructing...
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Awa is a dutiful daughter, and she knows that certain decisions aren't hers to make, so when her family pledges her to marry someone who's just a friend, she is resigned to her duty. When that marriage is broken so she can marry a man who is a womanizer, a wastrel, and worse-isn't Catholic-she resists with all her heart and eternal soul.
Blaise has hated Catholics since they murdered his parents. He shuns the traditional responsibilities of adulthood,...
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Quelques paroles d'un illustre poète peuvent parfois suffire à ouvrir les portes d'une grande aventure.
C'est en écoutant une chanson du lyrique algérien Slimane Azem que Rachid Bouamara découvre l'existence des nombreux soldats africains ayant combattu aux ctés de la France au cours de plusieurs conflits, notamment les deux guerres mondiales. Un de ses grands oncles trouva d'ailleurs la mort le 14 mai 1940 lors de la bataille de Gembloux....
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Comment vivaient les Algériens pendant la colonisation? La colonisation a-t-elle joué un rle positif en Algérie? Pourquoi, comment et quand le FLN fut-il créé en Algérie? Pourquoi a-t-on parlé de guerre fratricide entre FLN et MNA? Quel fut le rle d'Albert Camus? Que représente le congrès de la Soummam de 1956? Que s'est-il passé pendant la Bataille d'Alger de 1957? Pourquoi et comment Abane Ramdane a-t-il été assassiné? Que s'est-il...
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“Twenty Years Around the World” is an autobiography written by John Guy Vassar and published in 1891. Vassar was a wealthy American businessman who spent two decades traveling the world, visiting countries such as China, Japan, India, and Egypt. The book is a detailed account of Vassar's experiences during his travels. He describes the places he visited, the people he met, and the customs and cultures he encountered. Throughout the book, Vassar...
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The Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, ruled by local warlords and riven by religious fanaticism. But in the mad scramble for African colonies, Morocco had one great attraction for the Europeans: it was available. In 1903, France undertook to conquer the exotic and backward country. By the time World War I broke...
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“North Africa and the Desert Scenes and Moods” is a travelogue and collection of essays written by American author and poet George Edward Woodberry. The book, published in 1901, details Woodberry's travels through North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Throughout the book, Woodberry vividly describes the landscape, culture, and people he encounters on his journey. He provides insights into the history and customs of the region,...
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The definitive collection of travel writings by one of the twentieth century's best-loved journeyers. From the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece, and spent the rest of his life wandering the world. He traveled not to sightsee but to live, and made...
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During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la guerre d'Algérie en moins d'une heure!
Quand deux régions de l'Algérie française se soulèvent le 1er novembre 1954, personne ne s'imagine que commence alors une guerre sanglante qui marquera durablement des générations de Français et d'Algériens. Huit ans plus tard, l'Algérie prend son indépendance, tandis que des centaines de milliers de pieds-noirs rejoignent la métropole.
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Avec ce deuxième livre s'ouvre le temps des sacrifices consentis par les cadres et les militants du FLN ainsi que par les djounoud de l'ALN. S'ouvre aussi le temps des terribles épreuves subies par tous les Algériens pour faire face aux lois d'exception, aux déplacements et cantonnements forcés ainsi qu'aux meurtres de masse commis par l'armée française d'occupation et ses auxiliaires de service.
En mobilisant les moyens militaires les plus...
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Comment réagirent les populations civiles lors de la Première Guerre quand ils se trouvèrent, souvent pour la première fois, face à des noirs ?
La France fut le seul pays belligérant à engager des soldats noirs sur le front européen au cours de la première guerre mondiale. L'idéal universaliste de la République coloniale souvent invoqué fut-il un simple alibi idéologique destiné à justifier l'impérialisme ? Comment réagirent les...
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This is the first book-length study to analyse and problematize the notion of literary texts as 'sites of memory' with regard to the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954—62), and memories of it, in the work of French authors of Algerian origin. The book considers a primary corpus spanning over forty literary texts published between 1981 and 2012, analysing the extent to which texts are able to collect diverse and apparently competing...
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The Casablanca Connection examines France's colonial policy in Morocco from the Popular Front to the end of the Vichy regime in North Africa, relating it to overall French imperial policy and placing it in a European and world context. At the center of this study is General Charles Nogues, resident general of Morocco from 1936 to 1943, who, during this period, provided the protectorate with purpose, authority, direction, and continuity. Nogues restored...
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Jonathan Wyrtzen's Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco's historical coverage is remarkably thorough and sweeping; the author exhibits incredible scope in his research and mastery of an immensely rich set of materials from poetry to diplomatic messages in a variety of languages across a century of history. The monograph engages with the most important theorists of nationalism, colonialism, and state formation,...
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The Guinea of Sékou Touré entered modern history as an independent African nation on September 28, 1958 with a resounding "No" to the French community proposed by General Charles de Gaulle. This was one of the signature moments in the history of French decolonization in Africa and of the African independence movement writ large. The myth of Sékou Touré, meaning the transformation of his image into that of the bard and symbol of African dignity,...
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À partir de 1954, l'armée coloniale française va pratiquer une politique de regroupement de la population en Algérie. Cette effroyable méthode consistait à chasser de leurs villages des habitants dans le but de les soustraire à l'influence du FLN et de les réunir dans des centres situés près des postes militaires pour pouvoir les contrler directement et empêcher qu'ils renseignent, guident ou ravitaillent l'ALN. Pour contraindre les paysans...
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Un bandit d'honneur ou bien « social » est un « hors la loi » que le Seigneur et l'État considèrent comme un criminel, contrairement à la société paysanne à laquelle il appartient, pour qui il est plutt un héros, un champion, un vengeur, un justicier, qui vole les riches pour donner aux pauvres. Il incarne parfois la libération, selon le contexte sociopolitique du pays o il demeure. Son but est de secourir et réparer les torts.
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