Abstract
This book is the first protracted look at the aftermath of the French settler society in the wake of Algeria's independence. The one million colonial citizens relocated to France and left the colony the had called home and homeland for generations. The book examines the policies devised to integrate this population. It explores the relationship between a decolonizing French Republic that wished to forget its colonial past on the one hand and the colonists who continued to insist on the grandeur of empire on the other. The book argues that the evolution of this relationship was constitutive of decolonization politics, which remains unfinished still today.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Palgrave: Cambridge Series in Imperial and Postcolonial Studies |
| State | Published - 2015 |