| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. By Matthew Connelly. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii, 400 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-514513-5.)

As its intriguing subtitle situating "the origins of the post-Cold War era" at the time of "Algeria's fight for independence" indicates, Matthew Connelly's A Diplomatic Revolution is not just another history of Algeria's decolonization from France from 1954 to 1962. This fascinating book rather delves into multicultural archival material (French, Algerian, American, British, and Tunisian) to put forward an unprecedented international story of Algerian independence, its political leaders in exile, its social case for a "revolution" against the French colonial model of development, military atrocities, a succession of French governments culminating in Charles de Gaulle finally taking the métropole into the Fifth Republic, and exhausting, terrorism-ridden peace negotiations at Evian. Beyond the French ongoing healing process marking the war in Algeria essentially as a domestic wound, the book weaves together the threads of the complex postcolonial ethnic quilt of former French colonists, pro-French Algerians, and recent immigrants, now part of the same social fabric on French soil.

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