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(An) important contibution to the scholarship on the Algerian war. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW Organized as six interrelated chapters, Gosnell's book disentangles the harsh reality of trying to make Algeria French from the myth of l'Algerie francaise as represented through the socializing experiences of a centralized system of education and obligatory military service, among other things...Gosnell's book succeeds admirably in elaborating and exposing that colonial legacy from which Algeria continues to suffer today. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Feb 2004 Valuable new study...this is an ambitious book that addresses complex questions with admirable clarity - a rare but essential quality in discourse analysis. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY This book provides an essential resource for students of Algerian and French colonial history. At a time when French cultural identity is again at the center of public debate in France, it provides a necessary examination of the ambiguities and contradictions, as well as the idealism and bad faith, that have long lain at the heart of definitions of Frenchness. JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY 2006 Gosnell does a fascinating job of untangling the ethnic threats of Algerian society, revealing that each group and even sub-group of the population maintained its own culture and attitudes toward France... The work is essential for any student of the French-Algerian crisis and a valuable addition to any library of twentieth-century French culture. FRENCH REVIEW, 2005, Alice J. Strange

(An) important contibution to the scholarship on the Algerian war. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW Organized as six interrelated chapters, Gosnell's book disentangles the harsh reality of trying to make Algeria French from the myth of l'Algerie francaise as represented through the socializing experiences of a centralized system of education and obligatory military service, among other things. . . Gosnell's book succeeds admirably in elaborating and exposing that colonial legacy from which Algeria continues to suffer today. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, February 2004 Valuable new study. . . this is an ambitious book that addresses complex questions w ith admirable clarity -- a rare but essential quality in discourse analysis. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY This book provides an essential resource for students of Algerian and French colonial history. At a time when French cultural identity is again at the center of public debate in France, it provides a necessary examination of the ambiguities and contradictions, as well as the idealism and bad faith, that have long lain at the heart of definitions of Frenchness. JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY 2006 Gosnell does a fascinating job of untangling the ethnic threats of Algerian society, revealing that each group and even sub-group of the population maintained its own culture and attitudes toward France. . . . The work is essential for any student of the French-Algerian crisis and a valuable addition to any library of twentieth-century French culture. FRENCH REVIEW, 2005 (Alice J. Strange)

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JONATHAN K. GOSNELL teaches French language and cultural studies in the Department of French at Smith College.

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