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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| 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