James Mcdougall: History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria, Gebunden

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Colonialism denied Algeria its own history; nationalism reinvented it. James McDougall charts the creation of that history through colonialism to independence, exploring the struggle to define Algerias past. He analyses the relationship between history, Islamic culture and nationalism in Algeria. He confronts prevailing notions that nationalism emancipated Algerian history. Instead, nationalism was a new kind of domination, in which multiple memories and possible futures were effaced. This exceptional book will be read by colonial historians and social theorists as well as by scholars of the Middle East and North Africa.