LEADER 04951nam 2200841 450 001 9910811221003321 005 20210507001511.0 010 $a0-8122-9200-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292008 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529434 035 $a(EBL)4321861 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001582423 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16260040 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001582423 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12977759 035 $a(PQKB)11718717 035 $a(OCoLC)932050741 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46644 035 $a(DE-B1597)452758 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936134 035 $a(OCoLC)952808309 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292008 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321861 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149349 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL877815 035 $a(OCoLC)935259507 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321861 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529434 100 $a20160210h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe battle for Algeria $esovereignty, health care, and humanitarianism /$fJennifer Johnson 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4771-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tNote on Sources, Names, and Spellings --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Long Road to War --$t2. Medical Pacification and the Sections Administratives Spécialisées --$t3. "See Our Arms, See Our Physicians": The Algerian Health- Services Division --$t4. Internationalizing Humanitarianism: The Algerian Red Crescent --$t5. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Algeria --$t6. Global Diplomacy and the Fight for Self-Determination --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who-France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)-would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight between the two sides was not simply a military affair; it also involved diverse and competing claims about who was positioned to better care for the Algerian people's health and welfare. Johnson focuses on French and Algerian efforts to engage one another off the physical battlefield and highlights the social dimensions of the FLN's winning strategy, which targeted the local and international arenas. Relying on Algerian sources, which make clear the centrality of health and humanitarianism to the nationalists' war effort, Johnson shows how the FLN leadership constructed national health care institutions that provided critical care for the population and functioned as a protostate. Moreover, Johnson demonstrates how the FLN's representatives used postwar rhetoric about rights and national self-determination to legitimize their claims, which led to international recognition of Algerian sovereignty. By examining the local context of the war as well as its international dimensions, Johnson deprovincializes North Africa and proposes a new way to analyze how newly independent countries and nationalist movements engage with the international order. The Algerian case exposed the hypocrisy of selectively applying universal discourse and provided a blueprint for claim-making that nonstate actors and anticolonial leaders throughout the Third World emulated. Consequently, The Battle for Algeria explains the FLN's broad appeal and offers new directions for studying nationalism, decolonization, human rights, public health movements, and concepts of sovereignty. 410 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights. 606 $aDecolonization$zAlgeria 606 $aHumanitarianism$xPolitical aspects$zAlgeria 606 $aMedical care$zAlgeria$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aAlgeria$xPolitics and government$y1830-1962 607 $aAlgeria$xHistory$yRevolution, 1954-1962 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aCaregiving. 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHealth. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aMedicine. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aDecolonization 615 0$aHumanitarianism$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aMedical care$xHistory 676 $a965/.0461 700 $aJohnson$b Jennifer$f1981-$01122464 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811221003321 996 $aThe battle for Algeria$94061986 997 $aUNINA