1st Edition
Repeating Revolutions The French Revolution and the Algerian War
By Timothy Scott Johnson
Copyright 2025
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France’s Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria’s struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.
The French Empire justified their claims over Algeria in part through messages of universal progress marked by the political visions tied to the French Revolution. Supporters of... Read more
Introduction
1. Debating the Revolution’s Legacy
2. The Soul of the Republic and the Algerian Crisis
3. Dual Revolutions
4. “To Be French Today Is to Be Algerian”
5. Broken Mirrors
6. Revolution and Counter-Revolution
7. Rewriting North African History
8. Constructing the Third World from the Third Estate
Conclusion: Rewriting the Revolution: Analogies as Historiographical Operations
Biography
Timothy Scott Johnson is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. His work focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of postwar France. Previously, he translated François Ewald’s The Birth of Solidarity (2020).
