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Wars, Plots and Scandals in Post-War France

Philip M Williams author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Feb '10

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Williams explores the plots and scandals of that have affected both France and Algeria from the Algerian war.

This 1970 text brings together twelve articles on French political subjects, mostly concerned either with the plots and scandals that arose out of the long struggle for decolonisation, or with the culmination of that struggle in the Algerian war.This collection, first published in 1970, brings together twelve articles on French political subjects, mostly concerned either with the plots and scandals that arose out of the long struggle for decolonisation, or with the culmination of that struggle in the Algerian war. In his introduction as well as throughout the book, Williams demonstrates the connection between these two themes, and explains why political scandals have been so prominent and recurrent a feature of French public life and how these scandals affected both France as well as Algeria.

ISBN: 9780521130820

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm

Weight: 360g

244 pages