A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony - Hardcover

by William Gallois (Author)

Using newly-discovered documentation from the French military archives, A History of Violence in the Early Algerian Colony offers a comprehensive study of the forms of violence adopted by the French Army in Africa. Its coverage ranges from detailed case studies of massacres to the question of whether a genocide took place in Algeria.

Author Biography

William Gallois is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at Exeter University, UK. He works on the history of the western Mediterranean, focusing on exchanges between Europe and the Arab-Islamic world. His previous monographs include The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Algeria (Palgrave, 2008) and Time, Religion and History (2007).