ALGERIA, 1830-2000: A SHORT HISTORY

Discover Algeria Shiver as the sun rises over Assekrem, the mountains at the ’End of the World,’ p188 Rock the Casbah in Algiers, one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, p92 Explore the best Roman ruins in Africa, and the oldest rock art in the world, p132, p80 Tie your turban like a Yuareg and be swept up in the magic of the world’s greatest desert, p68 In This Guide: The only English-language guidebook to the Sahara’s most beautiful nation. Special chapter on Traveling in the Sahara, taking you into the depths of the desert. Visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler suggestions.
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Foreword by William B. QuandtA particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher. This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stagesecond in size among African nations, Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the world's fifthlargest natural gas reserves. Algeria, 18302000 is a comprehensive narrative history of the country. Benjamin Stora, widely recognized as the leading expert on Algeria, presents the story of this turbulent area from the start of formal French colonialism in the early nineteenth century, through the prolonged war for independence in the latter 1950s, to the internal strife of the present day. This book adapts and updates three short volumes published originally in French by La Découverte. For this English edition, Stora has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (18301954) and has revised the final section to bring the volume up to date.

Benjamin Stora is Professor of History at the University of Paris, Saint Denis. He is the author of a dozen books on North Africa and the Arab communities of France, including La Gangr&