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Book Title：Repeating Revolutions : The French Revolution and the Algerian Wa Author：Johnson, Timothy Scott à prix réduit Language：English ISBN：9781032435985
Repeating Revolutions : The French Revolution and the Algerian War, Hardcover by Johnson, Timothy Scott, ISBN 1032435984, ISBN-13 9781032435985, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK

"Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to Frances Revolutionary past to negotiate Algerias struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s. The French Empire justified their claimsover Algeria in part through messages of universal progress marked by the political visions tied to the French Revolution. Supporters of Algerian independence confronted those historical claims by identifying the Algerian cause with the French Revolutionand by highlighting the apparent contradictions between the history of 1789 and imperial rule. Far-right activists, meanwhile, saw the movement to decolonize Algeria as another manifestation of the Revolutionary disorder stemming from the French Revolution. Behind these analogies lay broader changes in the study of North African society and contemporary political relevance of the French Revolution. The focus on analogies to the French Revolution puts different sets of actors in conversation with one another and offers a fresh take on how peoples experiences and expectations changed throughout the Algerian War. This book will appeal to readers interested in the intellectual history of decolonization, the historiography of the French Revolution, the historiography of North African studies, and questions of historical comparison and conceptual change"--.