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Byrne, Jeffrey James.
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Algeria -- Foreign relations.
Algeria -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962.
Algeria -- Politics and government.
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Byrne, Jeffrey James.
Algeria -- Foreign relations.
Algeria -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962.
Algeria -- Politics and government.
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Mecca of revolution :
Algeria
, decolonization, and the Third World order / Jeffrey James Byrne.
by
Byrne, Jeffrey James.
Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call #:
962.046 B995m
Subjects
Algeria
--
Foreign relations.
Algeria
--
History
--
Autonomy and independence movements.
Algeria
--
History
--
Revolution, 1954-1962.
Algeria
--
Politics
and
government
.
ISBN:
9780190053772 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Algeria
, decolonization, and the Third World order
Description:
388 p. 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:
"Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent
Algeria
's ambitious agenda to reshape not only its own society, but international society too. In this work, Jeffrey James Byrne first examines the changing
politics
and international strategies of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) during its war with France, including the embrace of more encompassing visions of "decolonization" that necessitated socio-economic transformation on a global scale along Marxist/Leninist/Fanonist/Maoist/Guevarian lines. After independence, the Algerians played a leading role in Arab-African affairs as well as the far-reaching Third World project that challenged structural inequalities in the international system and the world economy, including initiatives such as the Non-Aligned Movement, the G77, and the Afro-Asian movement. At the same time, Algiers, nicknamed the "Mecca of Revolution," became a key nexus in an intercontinental transnational network of liberation movements, revolutionaries, and radical groups of various kinds. Drawing on unprecedented access to archival materials from the FLN, the independent Algerian state, and half a dozen other countries, Byrne narrates a postcolonial, or "South-South," international history. He situates dominant paradigms such as the Cold War in the larger context of decolonization and sheds new light on the relationships between the emergent elites of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Mecca of Revolution shows how Third Worldism evolved from a subversive transnational phenomenon into a mode of elite cooperation that reinforced the authority of the post-colonial state. In so doing, the Third World movement played a key role in the construction of the totalizing international order of the late-twentieth century."-Goodreads.
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