| Abstrakt: |
With this detailed comparative study of European settler colonies in Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Joël Michel takes a decisive step outside of the national frame of analysis which has come to dominate scholarship on settler colonialism. If the trajectory of settler colonialism in Algeria diverged from that of Australia or the United States, however, its historical exceptionalism is mitigated by the comparison with other settler colonies on the African continent. Nevertheless, in more fully inscribing Algeria within a comparative history of settler colonialism, Michel indicates a path for the greater integration of other areas of the Maghreb into this field of study. [Extracted from the article] |
