Repeating Revolutions

Auteur

Timothy Scott Johnson is an 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).

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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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

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