Monuments Decolonized: Algeria's French Colonial Heritage

by Susan Slyomovics

"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing and preserving this contested, yet shared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503639487
• ISBN13: 9781503639485
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"