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30 - History

University of Edinburgh

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Output 38 of 208 in the submission

Article title

Eine Million Algerier lernen im 20. Jahrhundert zu leben : Umsiedlungslager und Zwangsmodernisierung im Algerienkrieg 1954-1962

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

Title of journal

Journal of Modern European History

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

107

ISSN of journal

1611-8944

Year of publication

2010

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

Yes

English abstract

One of the most astonishing characteristics of the Algerian War of Independence against France is the combination between military struggle against insurrection and civil reform projects. One special aspect of this war allows us to identify the fusion of these two elements:French resettlement policy.The French army violently forced up to three million people into especially built camps, called «camps de regroupement».The «camps de regroupement» can be described as laboratories of modernization in which apparently contradictory elements were combined in a singular and unique way.Among these elements:development aid, an extremely rigid population control and different apparently totalitarian measures of social engineering.