Description
| Product ID: | 9783949573026 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Rewriting the Troubles |
| Subtitle: | War and Propaganda, Ireland and Algeria |
| Authors: | Author: Patrick Anderson |
| Page Count: | 379 |
| Subjects: | Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, European history, History, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Politics and government, British & Irish history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Western Continental Europe, France, Corsica, Algeria, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | This book compares and contrasts Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle for independence with the republican campaign to dismantle Britain’s colonial legacy. Comparing the French and British armies, the IRA and ALN, loyalists and OAS ‘counter-terrorists’, Anderson dissects the approach of ‘constitutional’ politicians and the respective media portrayals. In this timely and meticulously researched book, Patrick Anderson compares and contrasts Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle for independence with the republican campaign to dismantle Britain’s colonial legacy. Comparing the French and British armies, the IRA and ALN, loyalists and OAS ‘counter-terrorists’, Anderson dissects, with devastating effect, the approach of ‘constitutional’ politicians and the respective media portrayals in an analogy that for critics will be too close for comfort. About the book, historian Dr Brian Feeney, in the Irish News, said, ‘Unionists, including academics, have been aware of the striking analogies between Algeria and the north for decades: they all reject the uncanny similarities as dangerous… It’s easy to see why… Accepting any analogy or similarity means accepting that the north is illegal, a temporary arrangement, and that Britain will eventually leave Ireland as the French did Algeria.’ |
| Imprint Name: | Greenisland Press |
| Publisher Name: | Elsinor Verlag e.K. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-01 |
