Algeria: Nonviolent Resistance Against French Colonialism, 1830s-1950s (Chapter 6 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)
In recent years, two important books have focused on the violence of the French conquest and colonization of Algeria that began in 1830. Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison’s Coloniser, Exterminer emphasizes the role that colonies such as Algeria played in the development of military forms of violence later imported to Europe while Benjamin C. Brower presents a fine description of the violent means used by the French Army to control the Algerian desert after the conquest[…]
From the book ‘Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles‘, 2013
