War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958
Neil Macmaster, "War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958"
English | ISBN: 0198860218 | 2020 | 528 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0198860218 | 2020 | 528 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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. War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958 challenges this conventional understanding by tracing the ability of the peasant community to sustain an autonomous political culture through family, clan, and village 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.
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