War in the Mountains
«Macmaster's work offers a very detailed synthesis of the long dureé of resistance among rural populations of the Tell Atlas drawing together an immense array French and English sources.»
James N. Tallon, Lewis University, Journal of Contemporary History
The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because they have been viewed as a 'primitive' mass devoid of political consciousness. Les mer
assemblies.
The long-established system of indirect rule by which the colonial state controlled and policed the vast mountainous interior of Algeria began to break down after the 1920s. War in the Mountains explains how competing guerrilla forces and the French military sought to harness djemaas as part of a hearts-and-minds strategy. Djemaas formed a pole of opposition to the patron-client relations of the rural elites, with clandestine urban-rural networks emerging that prepared
the way for armed resistance and a system of rebel governance. Contrary to accepted historical analysis suggesting that rural society was massively uprooted and dislocated, War in the Mountains demonstrates that the peasantry demonstrated a high level of social cohesion and resistance based on powerful family and kin
networks.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198860211
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 25 x 17 cm
Anmeldelser
«Macmaster's work offers a very detailed synthesis of the long dureé of resistance among rural populations of the Tell Atlas drawing together an immense array French and English sources.»
James N. Tallon, Lewis University, Journal of Contemporary History
«MacMaster has written an important book, which will change perspectives of French Algeria. His work is illuminated with striking case studies and he makes impressive use of the documents that imperial administrators themselves drew up.»
Richard Vinen, Literary Review