The Pied-Noirs 1960-2000: A Case Study in the Persistence of Subcultural Distinctiveness

by Julie Gerber and R. Averell Manes

The French of Algeria, as they are commonly called today, remain a distinct yet waning subculture. Aspects of their lives continue to provide fertile ground for the media, including, most recently a widely published discussion of the use of torture and murder by French generals during the Algerian War (1955-1962). Publications continue to proliferate on all aspects and from all sides of the French Algerian experience as the time passed permits unprecedented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930901321
• ISBN13: 9781930901322
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 284 Pages