Algeria 18302000: A Short History

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"This book translates three of Storas published works into one concise scholarly and welcome survey.... Accessible to the nonspecialist.... Highly recommended for all levels."Choice Foreword by William B. Quandt A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992 in a population of 28 million 80 000 people have been reported killed and the actual total is almost certainly higher. This terrible war overshadows Algerias long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stagesecond in size among African nations Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the worlds fifth-largest natural gas reserves. Algeria 1830-2000 is a comprehensive narrative history of the country. Benjamin Stora widely recognized as the leading expert on Algeria presents the story of this turbulent area from the start of formal French colonialism in the early nineteenth century through the prolonged war for independence in the latter 1950s to the internal strife of the present day. This book adapts and updates three short volumes published originally in French by La Dcouverte. For this English edition Stora has written a new introductory chapter on Algerias colonial period (1830-1954) and has revised the final section to bring the volume up to date.