The French North African Crisis

Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945–62

M. Thomas

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9780333715604
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230287426
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

The French North African Crisis analyses the postwar breakdown in French imperial rule in North West Africa, concentrating primarily upon the Algerian war of independence. The book highlights the human tragedy involved and the divisive consequences within French metropolitan politics of intractable colonial conflict. It further examines how far the protracted crisis of colonial control in North Africa shaped French foreign and security policy and this impacted upon Anglo-French relations, the western alliance and the wider process of decolonization.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The French North African Crisis
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Heads of French Government, 1944±62
• Introduction
• 1 Divergent Imperialism? Britain and the Restoration of French Power in North Africa, 1945–49
• 2 Towards Independence for Morocco and Tunisia: British and American Concerns, 1950–56
• 3 The Algerian War as a Colonial Problem: British Responses, 1954–58
• 4 1956: the Algerian War Extended and the Suez Intervention
• 5 France Undermined? French International Power and the Algerian War, 1954–58
• 6 The Algerian Conflict — a Cold War Front Line?
• 7 Britain, de Gaulle and Algeria, 1958–62
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index