Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Cole, Joshua, 1961- author.

Title Lethal provocation : the Constantine murders and the politics of French Algeria / Joshua Cole.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
©2019

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (ix, 317 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Jews -- Algeria -- Constantine -- History.
Jews.
Algeria -- Constantine.
History.
Riots -- Algeria -- Constantine -- History -- 20th century.
Riots.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Ethnic conflict -- Algeria -- Constantine -- History -- 20th century.
Constantine (Algeria) -- Ethnic relations.
Constantine (Algeria) -- History -- 20th century.
France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940.
Ethnic conflict.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1914-1940
Subject France.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Ethnic relations.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Cole, Joshua, 1961- Lethal provocation. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739415 (DLC) 2018053417
ISBN 9781501739446 (electronic book)
1501739433 (electronic book)
9781501739439 (electronic book)
1501739441 (electronic book)
9781501739415 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)