The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62
The French North African Crisis analyses the postwar breakdown in French imperial rule in North West Africa, concentrating primarily upon the Algerian war of independence. The book highlights the human tragedy involved and the divisive consequences within French metropolitan politics of intractable colonial conflict. It further examines how far the protracted crisis of colonial control in North Africa shaped French foreign and security policy and this impacted upon Anglo-French relations, the western alliance and the wider process of decolonization.
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The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62
The French North African Crisis analyses the postwar breakdown in French imperial rule in North West Africa, concentrating primarily upon the Algerian war of independence. The book highlights the human tragedy involved and the divisive consequences within French metropolitan politics of intractable colonial conflict. It further examines how far the protracted crisis of colonial control in North Africa shaped French foreign and security policy and this impacted upon Anglo-French relations, the western alliance and the wider process of decolonization.
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The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62

The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62

by M. Thomas
The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62

The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62

by M. Thomas

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The French North African Crisis analyses the postwar breakdown in French imperial rule in North West Africa, concentrating primarily upon the Algerian war of independence. The book highlights the human tragedy involved and the divisive consequences within French metropolitan politics of intractable colonial conflict. It further examines how far the protracted crisis of colonial control in North Africa shaped French foreign and security policy and this impacted upon Anglo-French relations, the western alliance and the wider process of decolonization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333715604
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/08/2000
Series: Studies in Military and Strategic History
Edition description: 2000
Pages: 287
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

MARTIN THOMAS is Reader in International History at the University of the West of England. His previous books are Britain, France and Appeasement: Anglo-French Relations in the Popular Front Era (1996) and The French Empire at War, 1940-45 (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary of Heads of French Government List of Maps Introduction Divergent Imperialism? Britain and the Restoration of French Power in North Africa, 1945-49 Towards Independence for Morocco and Tunisia: British and American Concerns, 1950-56 The Algerian War as a Colonial Problem: British Responses, 1954-58 1956: The Algerian War Extended and the Suez Intervention France Undermined?: French International Power and the Algerian War, 1954-58 The Algerian Conflict - a Cold War Front-Line? Britain, de Gaulle and Algeria, 1958-62 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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