Stora, Benjamin, 1950-

Algeria, 1830-2000 : a short history / Benjamin Stora ; translated by Jane Marie Todd ; foreword by William B. Quandt. - Revised and updated. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001. - xv, 283 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Translation of: Histoire de l'Algérie coloniale, 1830-1954 ; Histoire de la guerre d'Algérie, 1954-1962 ; Histoire de l'Algérie depuis l'indépendance.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-273) and index.

The "phony war" (November 1954-July 1955) -- The open war (August 1955-December 1956) -- The cruel war (1957) -- The war of the Algerians (1954-1958) -- De Gaulle and the war (1958-1959) -- The wars within the war (1960-1961) -- The war and French society (1955-1962) -- The terrible end of war -- A war's toll -- Summer 1962 -- Ben Bella's Algeria (1962-1965) -- Boumédienne, the state, and the institutions -- Economic choices and foreign policy (1965-1978) -- Society and culture in Algeria (1962-1982) -- The jamming of the system (1979-1988) -- The crisis of October 1988 and its consequences -- Algeria at war.

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