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Lethal provocation : the Constantine murders and the politics of French Algeria
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- Summary
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"Explores the most lethal episode of anti-Jewish violence to happen on French territory in peacetime in the twentieth century, a riot in Constantine, Algeria in 1934 in which 28 people died"--
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- Creator
- Joshua Cole
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- [xi], 317 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1501739441, 1501739417, 9781501739415, 9781501739439, 9781501739446, 1501739433
- OCLC
- on1065548279, on1065961218
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Constantine in North African history -- Native, Jewish, and European -- The crucible of local politics -- The postwar moment -- French Algeria's dual fracture -- Provocation, difference, and public space -- Rehearsals for crisis -- Friday and Saturday, August 3-4, 1934 -- Sunday, August 5, 1934 -- Shock and containment -- Empire of fright -- The police investigation -- The agitator -- The trials
Subjects
- Jews -- Algeria -- Constantine -- History.
- Riots -- Algeria -- Constantine -- History -- 20th century.
- Ethnic conflict -- Algeria -- Constantine -- History -- 20th century.
- Constantine (Algeria) -- Ethnic relations.
- Constantine (Algeria) -- History -- 20th century.
- France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940.