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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816728703321

Autore

Connelly Matthew James

Titolo

A diplomatic revolution : Algeria's fight for independence and the origins of the post-cold war era / / Matthew Connelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-771256-8

1-280-53177-0

0-19-803317-6

1-4294-0140-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

965/.0462

Soggetti

Algeria History Revolution, 1954-1962

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-385) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Algeria and the International System; Photo gallery; Part II: The Internationalization of the Algerian Question, 1954-1956; Part III: Waging the Algerian War as a World War, 1956-1958; Part IV: Waging the Algerian War as a World War, 1958-1960; Part V: The Domestication of the Algerian Question, 1960-1962; Conclusion: The Sense of History; Appendix: The Rise and Fall of the Armée de Libération Nationale; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fought at a strategic crossroads in the Cold War, Algeria's war for independence was a harbinger of the contemporary era. In this history, the author shows how the rebels harnessed the forces of globalization to break up the French Empire.