Saharan Jews and the fate of French Algeria /

Saharan Jews and the fate of French Algeria /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, Sarah Abrevaya (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Jews > Algeria > History.
Mzab (Algeria) > History.
France > Colonies > Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • The lost archive
  • Introduction: inventing indigeneity
  • Anthropology and the ghost of the colonial past
  • Jews northern and southern: the French annexation of the Mzab and the boundaries of colonial law
  • Governing typologies: from the conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus affair
  • Contested access: conscription, public health, and education from the fin de siècle through the interwar period
  • Saharan battlegrounds: from the Vichy regime to a postwar world
  • Oil, the Algerian war of independence, and competing stories of departure
  • Conclusion: colonial shadows
  • Epilogue: dark matter.