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'A Chacun son Public' [To Each his Public]: Performing Politics and Culture in Interwar Algeria
Joshua Cole (History) was the 2008-09 Norman and Jane Katz Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities. The project he worked on was titled "The Empire of Fear: Violence and Politics of the Colonial Situation in Eastern Algeria, 1919-1940."
It explores a period of intense political and cultural innovation in French Algeria during the years of the Popular Front, and several concurrent episodes of extreme violence that fractured local communities in the region in the years before World War II.
It explores a period of intense political and cultural innovation in French Algeria during the years of the Popular Front, and several concurrent episodes of extreme violence that fractured local communities in the region in the years before World War II.
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