1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452811003321

Autore

Evans Martin <1964->

Titolo

Algeria [[electronic resource] ] : anger of the dispossessed / / Martin Evans and John Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.] ; ; London, : Yale University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-300-17722-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 352 pages) : illustrations, map

Altri autori (Persone)

PhillipsJohn

Disciplina

965.05

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Algeria

Electronic books.

Algeria History 1962-1990

Algeria History 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-330) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface : why Algeria? -- Introduction : the role of the past in Algerian history -- Dissident landscape -- Forced marriage : French Algeria 1830-1962 -- Darling of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1962-78 -- Black October -- Political Islam -- Algeria's agony -- The Algerian question -- The new imperialism and the war on terror -- Afterword : the anger that will not go away.

Sommario/riassunto

After liberating itself from French colonial rule in one of the twentieth century's most brutal wars of independence, Algeria became a standard-bearer for the non-aligned movement. By the 1990's, however, its revolutionary political model had collapsed, degenerating into a savage conflict between the military and Islamist guerillas that killed some 200,000 citizens. In this lucid and gripping account, Martin Evans and John Phillips explore Algeria's recent and very bloody history, demonstrating how the high hopes of independence turned into anger as young Algerians grew increasingly alienated. Unemployed, frustrated by the corrupt military regime, and excluded by the West, the post-independence generation needed new heroes, and some found them in Osama bin Laden and the rising Islamist movement. Evans and Phillips trace the complex roots of this alienation, arguing that Algeria's predicament-political instability, pressing economic and social



problems, bad governance, a disenfranchised youth-is emblematic of an arc of insecurity stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. Looking back at the pre-colonial and colonial periods, they place Algeria's complex present into historical context, demonstrating how successive governments have manipulated the past for their own ends. The result is a fractured society with a complicated and bitter relationship with the Western powers-and an increasing tendency to export terrorism to France, America, and beyond.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455955803321

Autore

Fisher Burton D

Titolo

Strauss's SALOME [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Miami, : Opera Journeys Publishing, 2003

ISBN

1-280-92294-X

9786610922949

0-9771455-1-4

0-585-43859-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 p.)

Disciplina

782.1/0268

Soggetti

Strauss, Richard

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Salome/Opera Classics Library Series; Title Page; Contents; a prelude; Provenance; Principal Characters in Salome; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Commentary and Analysis; Libretto; Discography; Videography; Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's SALOME, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English side-by side, and over 25 music highlight examples.