History and the culture of nationalism in Algeria /
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 Algeria's past and determine the meaning of its nationhood. Through local histories, he analyses the r...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Cambridge Middle East studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Map
- The language of history
- Prologue : Tunis
- The margins of a world in fragments : Maghribi voices in exile : Algeria, Tunisia, Europe and the East
- The conquest conquered? : natural and unnatural histories of Algeria
- The doctors of new religion
- Saint cults and ancestors
- Arabs and Berbers?
- Epilogue : Algiers, 2001
- The invention of authenticity
- Archival sources
- Bibliography
- Index.