| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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France, the United States, and the Algerian War. By Irwin M. Wall. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv, 335 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-520-22534-1.)

"Algeria was a clear case of a Third World revolution that Washington believed it could accept," notes the French historian Irwin M. Wall. In this detailed and well-written new book, Wall examines the divergent views of the governments of the United States and France regarding the insurrection that broke out in Algeria against French colonial rule in 1954 and lasted until independence in 1962. While the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration considered Algerian independence inevitable and even a virtue in light of the noncommunist nationalists leading the struggle, the various governments in Paris fought a brutal war to preserve French rule in the colony. 1

The one million French settlers living in relative affluence among eight million poorer Muslim Algerians underlay the French determination that Algeria was not a colony but an integral part of France itself. Considering Algeria a strictly domestic problem, French policy makers resented pressure from their American ally to negotiate an end to their rule in this "settler colony with an internal system of apartheid." Wall's story fits into the broader context of post-1945 African history in which areas of heavy European settlement fiercely resisted decolonization and majority rule; other such areas included the Katanga province of the Congo, the highlands of Kenya, Southern Rhodesia, and South Africa. . . .

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