Algeria - Martin Evans, John Phillips
Anger of the Dispossessed
KORTE INHOUD
How Algeria became a breeding ground for instability, violence, and Islamic terrorism 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 1990s, 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 ec...
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2007Uitgever: Yale University Press352 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300108818ISBN-13: 9780300108811Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2007, 352pp, Hardcover met stofomslag, klein scheurtje in de stofomslag, verder netjes. [Auteur: Evans, Martin, Phillips, John] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Yale University Press] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Algeria / Anger of the Dispossessed]
