03339namaa2200637uu 4500 oapen97293 oapen 20251217011846.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 250123s2025a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003368052 9781032435985 9781032435992 10.4324/9781003368052 doi oapen oapen eng dc N thema NH thema NHB thema NHD thema NHH thema NHT thema NHTQ thema Johnson, Timothy Scott edt Repeating Revolutions The French Revolution and the Algerian War Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2025 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France's Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria's struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s. The French Empire justified their claims over 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 Revolution and 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 people's 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng African history thema Colonialism and imperialism thema European history thema General and world history thema History and Archaeology thema History: specific events and topics thema History thema Albert Camus Algerian decolonization Frantz Fanon Peter Wirzbicki pieds noirs Robespierre Sarah Igo The Battle of Algiers Johnson, Timothy Scott aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97293 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36850 36850