Algeria, 1830–2000 – A Short History Stora Todd Quandt Paperback 9780801489167

Cornell University Press

Algeria, 18302000A Short History\nAuthor(s): Benjamin Stora, Jane Marie Todd, William B. Quandt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801489167, 978-0801489167\nSynopsis\n\""This book translates three of Stora's published works into one concise, scholarly, and welcome survey.... Accessible to the nonspecialist.... Highly recommended for all levels.\""-Choice\n\n Foreword by William B. Quandt\n\n A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher. This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stage-second in size among African nations, Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves.\n\n Algeria, [tel.