Uncivil War Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria, Second Edition
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Biographical note
James D. Le Sueur is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the editor of Mouloud Feraoun's Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War (available in a Bison Books edition) and The Decolonization Reader and The Decolonization Sourcebook. He contributed new material to Ben Abro’s Assassination! July 14 and Henri Alleg’s The Question, both available in Bison Books editions.“An illuminating study of French intellectual responses to the war.”—<i>New York Review of Books</i>
“An important work that analyzes the development of conceptions of identity in a dynamic historical situation, revealing their possibilities and limits. It deserves to be widely read and discussed.”—<i>Journal of Modern History</i>
“Le Sueur’s great achievement is to reveal the complexity of the political and moral choices faced by intellectuals and, by extension, by the wider populations of Algeria and France.”—<i>Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History</i>
“Le Sueur has provided an insightful and lively interpretation of an ongoing moral, sociological, political, and intellectual struggle taking place on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea.”—<i>American Historical Review</i>
“Uncivil War is indispensable reading for re-assessing the greater historical significance of the Algerian War.”—<i>Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations</i>