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Journal of African History and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. His publications include History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria (Cambridge, 2006), Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa, ed. with Judith Scheele (2012), and Global and Local in Algeria and Morocco: The World, the State and the ...
This chapter examines the development of the novel in Algeria within the context of the country’s history. Much Algerian literature functions as a means of political expression. The social status of women has been an important theme, addressed either as a critique of patriarchy or through the notion of women’s voice.
- James McDougall
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'Africa’s largest state by size, Algeria is an energy producer whose political and religious future is of critical importance to the Mediterranean, north Africa and the wider Islamic world. Oxford historian McDougall paints a compelling portrait of a country whose history is too often seen through the narrow lens of French colonialism and the ...
- James McDougall
- 2017
Apr 27, 2017 · Published 27 April 2017. History. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, this book explores the dramatic modern history of Africa’s largest country. James McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of Algeria’s people and their cultures through the ...
Dec 16, 2013 · Algeria, 1830-2000. by. Benjamin Stora. Publication date. 2001. Topics. Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962, Algeria -- History -- 1962-1990, Algeria -- History -- 1990-. Publisher. Cornell University Press.
Apr 24, 2017 · Request PDF | A History of Algeria | Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an... | Find,...
At first sight, Algeria seems to illustrate to a very high degree the power of the modern state to control and transform social life, through both the dislocations and repression of the colonial period and the ambitious projects that followed independence. Again, this is certainly an important part of the story, and the ‘fierce’ aspects of ...
