Murphy, Council on Foreign Relations, "There is a wealth of reliable and useful historical information, including detailed treatments of the country's politics, economics, society, and foreign relations. Its reader will gain a rare perspective on the interplay of forces behind Algeria's current tragedy."-Richard W. This sensitive and detailed analysis of the past half century of turbulence in Algeria provides a wealth of information about the dynamics of Algerian society. "Benjamin Stora's scholarly and readable text fills a major gap in English language literature about modern Algeria. For this English edition, Stora has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (1830-1954) and has revised the final section to bring the volume up to date. This book adapts and updates three short volumes published originally in French by La Découverte. Benjamin Stora, widely recognized as the leading expert on Algeria, presents the story of this turbulent area from the start of formal French colonialism in the early nineteenth century, through the prolonged war for independence in the latter 1950s, to the internal strife of the present day. Algeria, 1830-2000 is a comprehensive narrative history of the country.
This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stage-second in size among African nations, Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher.
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