A History of Algeria

James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern
history of Africa's largest country Covering a period of five
hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of
the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new
account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing
on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research,
McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story,
tracing the continuities and the resilience of Algeria's people and
their cultures through the dramatic changes and crises that have
marked the country. Whether examining the emergence of the Ottoman
viceroyalty in the early modern Mediterranean, the 130 years of
French colonial rule and the revolutionary war of independence, the
Third World nation-building of the 1960s and 1970s, or the terrible
violence of the 1990s, this book will appeal to a wide variety of
readers in African and Middle Eastern history and politics, as well
as those concerned with the wider affairs of the Mediterranean.