Lethal Provocation The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Joshua Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century European history and has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. His book The Power of Large Numbers was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 by Choice Magazine. He is also coauthor, with Carol Symes, of Western Civilizations.
<p>Moving seamlessly between a range of historical registers, Cole offers at once a history of religious life under French colonial rule, a portrait of socio-cultural change in a transforming colonial city, an analysis of the intersections of metropolitan and colonial politics in the 1930s, and a granular reconstruction of the events worthy of a great criminologist. Lethal Provocation will remain a classic in French colonial studies for decades to come.</p>
Alf Andrew Heggogy Book Prize Citation
<p>Joshua Cole's fascinating and extremely well-researched and well-written<i> Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders adn the Politics of French Algeria </i>is like a strong wind in the sails of the microhistorical method.</p>
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
<p>Cole has done a great service in unpacking all of this, and has managed to do so while producing a gripping history that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.</p>
Journal of Modern History
<p>Meticulously researched and deftly constructed, Cole's work delineates how the riots, long mischaracterized and misunderstood by contemporaries and historians alike, shed new light on the activities of neofascist elements of the French right in Algeria. The author offers not only a fascinating glimpse into the conspiracy and the official coverup, but in reconstructing social relations on the local level, he illuminates the twisted racial logic(s) of the French colonial state.</p>
Histoire sociale/Social History
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Joshua Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century European history and has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. His book The Power of Large Numbers was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 by Choice Magazine. He is also coauthor, with Carol Symes, of Western Civilizations.