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A New Israel: Colonial Comparisons and the Algerian Partition that Never Happened

cam.issuedOnline2018-01-01
dc.contributor.authorAsseraf, ARC
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-08T06:31:20Z
dc.date.available2018-09-08T06:31:20Z
dc.date.issued2018-02-01
dc.description.abstractIn 1960-62, French officials considered partitioning Algeria between European- and Muslim-majority areas, much later and more seriously than the existing historiography shows. Even its supporters, however, remained ambivalent considering it to be a “foreign” approach to decolonization, opposed to French principles of territorial unity and racial equality. Thus, they discussed partition by comparing Algeria to foreign models, in particular the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine that led to the creation of the state of Israel. Drawing on the private papers of Prime Minister Michel Debré, the writings of Alain Peyrefitte, as well as archives from the ministries of Algerian and Foreign Affairs, this article argues that partition plans were failed attempts to deflect colonialism by looking sideways. To do so, the supporters of partition made use of comparison, a longstanding tool of the colonial administration.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.27185
dc.identifier.eissn1527-5493
dc.identifier.issn1527-5493
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/279815
dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSociety for French Historical Studies
dc.publisher.urlhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/french-historical-studies/article/41/1/95/133067/A-New-Israel-Colonial-Comparisons-and-the-Algerian
dc.subject4303 Historical Studies
dc.subject43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
dc.titleA New Israel: Colonial Comparisons and the Algerian Partition that Never Happened
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2017-05-30
prism.endingPage120
prism.issueIdentifier1
prism.publicationDate2018
prism.publicationNameFrench Historical Studies
prism.startingPage95
prism.volume41
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-02-01
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionAM
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1215/00161071-4254631

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