Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new acco

The history of Algeria from the beginning of the French conquest in 1830 to the present day

An exceptional analysis of the relationship between colonialism, Islamic culture and nationalism in Algeria.

The Algerian war was at once the last of the old-style "colonial wars" and the archetype of horribly savage new conflicts - undeclared wars between old and new

After liberating itself from French colonial rule in one of the twentieth century's most brutal wars of independence, Algeria became a standard-bearer for the n