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One Of The Largest Countries In Africa And In The Arab World, Algeria In The Last Half Of The Twentieth Century Has Stood As A Compelling Model Of National Liberation And Development. Yet, As The Century Nears A Close, Algeria Is Beset By A National Crisis, Its Economy In Virtual Collapse, Its Single-party Political System Discredited, And Its Cultural Identity Challenged By Emergent Islamic Fundamentalism. John Ruedy Provides The First Up-to-date History Of Algeria's Evolution From A Segmented Tribal Order Under The Ottoman Empire Through Five Generations Of French Colonial Exploitation, To An Eight-year War Of Liberation, And Finally To Independent Statehood. A Concluding Chapter Surveys The Developing Political And Economic Crisis Of The 1980s And 1990s, Which Witnessed Algeria At A Crossroads Between The Islamists And Military Rule. -- Back Cover. Introduction --- Ottoman Algeria And Its Legacy --- Invasion, Resistance, And Colonization, 1830-1871 --- The Colonial System And The Transformation Of Algerian Society, 1871-1919 --- The Algerian Nationalist Movement, 1919-1954 --- The War Of Independence, 1954-1962 --- The Challenges Of Independence, 1962-1978 --- The Bendjedid Year

Author

Ruedy, John (John Douglas), 1927-

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253207463

Subjects

History, Humanities