Lethal provocation : the Constantine murders and the politics of French Algeria /

Cole, Joshua (1961-....)

Lethal provocation : the Constantine murders and the politics of French Algeria / Joshua Cole - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 - (317 p.)

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

"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"--

978-1-5017-3941-5


JUIF
INSURRECTION
PERIODE COLONIALE


CONSTANTINE
ALGERIE
FRANCE

RELATIONS ETHNIQUES

305.892406531