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Publisher: Oxford Business Group
Keywords: algeria, report
Published: 2008-11-30
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ISBN-10: 1902339096
ISBN-13: 9781902339092
Author: Martin Stone
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Keywords: algeria, agony
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1997-09-17
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ISBN-10: 1850651779
ISBN-13: 9781850651772
Author: Martin Stone
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: algeria, agony
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 0231109105
ISBN-13: 9780231109109
Since the Algerian military annulled an election in January 1992 that would have brought to power the world’s first democratically elected Islamist government, a civil war has raged in which more than 100,000 Algerians have died. The military takeover polarized the country between the political and military elite and the mass of the population. The elite were perceived as interested only in personal gain and holding on to power, while most Algerians faced intense hardship. But the brutality of the Islamists’ insurgency -including car bombings, the murder of ’immodestly’
Author: Kay Adamson
Publisher: Cassell
Keywords: ideologies, competing, study, algeria
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1998-08
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0304700126
ISBN-13: 9780304700127
This text examines the extent to which the 1991-2 crisis in Algeria had its origins in the competing ideologies and policy choices of the Boumediene era (1965-78). In post-independence Algeria, the post-World War II French statist model on the one hand, and, on the other, the Soviet model of the planned economy were juxtaposed on the contradictions stemming from Algeria’s colonial and pre-colonial history, the development of nationalist ideas and, finally, the creation of the Front de Liberation Nationale in 1954. These unresolved conflicts overshadowed independence and resulted in the e
Author: Johathan Oakes
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Keywords: guide, travel, bradt, algeria
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-06-17
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 184162232X
ISBN-13: 9781841622323
This new Bradt guide will be the first to focus on the renascent Algeria and bring out the many features of this beguiling North African country. The attraction of Algeria lies in its fascinating mix of cultures. The towns ooze French charm with churches crowning vine-covered hills and cafés lining the streets; however, a short trip will bring you to a mud-brick town or Sahara oasis that echoes a muezzin’s call and where Europe feels a world away. The guide covers fascinating UNESCO World Heritage sites, Al Qata of Beni Hammad, Djemila, M’zab Vakkey and the Roman sites of Timgad and
Author: David L. Schalk
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: vietnam, algeria, tower, ivory, war
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0803293437
ISBN-13: 9780803293434
In War and the Ivory Tower, David L. Schalk explores the public role of the intellectual in times of national crisis. He compares American responses to the Vietnam War with French responses to the Algerian War, finding many similarities in the way intellectuals voiced their outrage at the policies of their governments. At a time when national crises abound but protest is out of fashion, and intellectuals are possibly a dying species, this book presents a needed reexamination of what it means for intellectuals to speak out on issues of international importance.
Author: Michael Willi
Publisher: NYU Pre
Keywords: history, political, algeria, challenge, islamist
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0814793290
ISBN-13: 9780814793299
In recent years, Algeria has been rocked by social upheaval, protest, and spasmodic violence. Like many countries caught between the tides of fundamentalist religion and secular culture, the very fiber of the nation seems to be fraying. Michael Willis here charts the meteoric rise of one of the largest and most powerful Islamist movements in the Muslim world. Tracing its origins to the French colonial domination in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Islamism has always played a defining role in both the national struggle against the French and in the newly independent Algerian state
