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Hartmut
Elsenhans
La
Guerre d'Algerie 1954-1962.
La transition d'une France a une autre.
Le Passage de la IVe à la Ve Republique
The
War in Algeria 1954-1962
The Transition in France
Preface
de/by Gilber Meynier
(Paris
: Publisud, 2000), 1072 pp.,
€ 56.10 ISBN: 2-86600-713-1 ISSN: 0981-4825
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This book
was originally published as a revised Ph.D. dissertation in
German in 1974. Twenty five years later a revised and updated
French translation was published with a long introduction
by Gilbert Meynier and a detailed bibliography (pp. 19-59)
of the many publications that have been made available since
1974.
After
a brief introduction (pp.63-76), Elsenhans' book is organised
in ten chapters: Chapter I focuses on the international system
and the Algerian war of decolonisation (pp. 77-144), chapter
II analyses the situation in Algeria on the eve of the war
(pp. 145-220), chapter III analyses French interests in Algeria
during the colonial period and the importance of the Algerian
problem for the French strategy in Africa (pp. 221-372), chapter
IV focuses on the interpretations and the models of perception
of the Algerian war in the metropol (pp. 373-426), chapter
V covers in detail the politics of repression (pp. 427-590),
chapter VI analyses the economic and social reforms of France
in Algeria (pp. 591-748), chapter VII discusses the role of
Algerian workers in France (pp. 749-758), chapter VIII reviews
the political reforms and the negotiations (pp. 759-888),
chapters IX analyses the direct effects of the Algerian war
on the French metropol (pp. 889-930), while chapter X assesses
the difficulty France had to adjust to the loss of its status
as a big power (pp 931-998). The book includes four annexes:
1: a list of abbreviations (pp. 999-1004), 2. a list of documents
published in the materials on the Algerian war (pp. 1005-1006),
3. the law granting Algeria autonomy (pp. 1007-1016), and
4. a project on the constitutional law of Algeria (pp. 1017-1022)
and a bibliography (pp. 1023-1066).
Hartmut
Elsenhans is professor of international relations at Leipzig
university, he also taught at the universities of Constance,
Frankfurt, Berlin, Dakar, New Delhi and Montreal. He has published
widely on conflicts of decolonisation, on North-South issues
and on the strategies of development that have also been published
in Algeria, India and Bangladesh.
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