• DOI:10.1086/694427
Corpus ID: 148602270

The Impossible Republic: The Reconquest of Algeria and the Decolonization of France, 1945–1962*

@article{Mcdougall2017TheIR,
  title={The Impossible Republic: The Reconquest of Algeria and the Decolonization of France, 1945–1962*},
  author={J. Mcdougall},
  journal={The Journal of Modern History},
  year={2017},
  volume={89},
  pages={772 - 811}
}

• J. Mcdougall
• Published 2017
• Sociology
• The Journal of Modern History

In December 1960, Le Progres, a regional newspaper published in southeastern France, carried a story about the ceremonial inauguration of a “new village” in the region of Oran in northwestern Algeria. Previously referred to as “El Ouennane number 3”, the settlement was now named the “village de l’Ain”, after the rural departement of metropolitan France, located between Lyon and the Swiss border, that had substantially financed its construction by public subscription. According to the report… Expand