Lethal Provocation : : The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria / / Joshua Cole.

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Joshua Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jew...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Map 1. Northern Algeria during the colonial period
  • Map 2. The city of Constantine in 1934
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Algerian Histories of Empire
  • 1. Constantine in North African History
  • 2. "Native," "Jewish," and "European"
  • 3. The Crucible of Local Politics
  • Part 2: Colonial Society in Motion
  • 4. The Postwar Moment
  • 5. French Algeria's Dual Fracture
  • 6. Provocation, Difference, and Public Space
  • 7. Rehearsals for Crisis
  • Part 3: A Riot in France
  • 8. Friday and Saturday, August 3-4, 1934
  • 9. Sunday, August 5, 1934
  • 10. Shock and Containment
  • Part 4: Making the Riot Algerian
  • 11. Empire of Fright
  • 12. The Police Investigation
  • 13. The Agitator
  • 14. The Trials
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index