... settlers poured into the country, the first French insurance company opened an agency in Algiers. After the end of the First World War, when certain countries pressed on with modernization programmes along European lines on which they had embarked during the nineteenth century, insurance was one aspect...

...This chapter recounts thirty coordinated attacks and bombings that took place in Algiers on 1 November 1954, in which seven people were killed and five of them were white colonists (pied-noir). It analyzes the statement of French Prime Minister Mendes that there should be no compromise when it came...

... Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, famously screened at the Pentagon in 2003. Aslam Nadeem Battle of Algiers The Pontecorvo Bush George W Clarke Richard A Nagl John A on counterinsurgency optimism Pontecorvo Gillo suicide torture and doctors War on Terror Saadi Yacef Sheehan Michael on the lesson...

...This chapter opens with the military conquest of Algiers and Constantine, and the scientific assessment of the region's resources, including ancient monuments. In the months and years after the conquest, the French recorded their impressions of the landscape of their new colony. At the same time...

...This piece presents the upcoming Pan-African Festival of Algiers of 1969. After briefly describing how the festival was organized, who will attend, and how the OAU is advertising the festival, the authors outline what they hope will come out of the festival. The article includes five poems from...

...Ben Messaoud wrote this piece shortly after the Pan-African Festival of Algiers closed. The article is a celebration of the festival and of the energy that the artists and militants brought to the streets of Algiers. The article also warns the readers not to satisfy themselves with shows...

... surveys insurers' interventions in the American conflict with Algiers; in conflicts with Britain and France over neutral shipping; in Jefferson's embargo, and in the War of 1812. Bentley William Customs revenue French Revolutionary Wars 1792–1802 Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815 Netherlands Amsterdam Dutch...

... of the veil, the other over the aestheticizing technique that came to be called, eponymously, “the tracking shot in Kapo”—inflect the “three women, three bombs” montage representing the terrorist bombings at the heart of The Battle of Algiers. colony colonial colonization history historicity Mellen Joan...

...After 1792, the regency of Algiers invited Jews and Muslims to settle in Oran, opened Oran to the interior, and reopened the Iberian peninsula to products shipped from Oran. As a result, many of the late medieval commercial links discussed in the last chapter were renewed, with Oran increasingly...

... beginning in the 1660s and culminating in the French invasion of Algiers in 1830. Adriatic Ionian coast Adriatic Sea Algiers Corsairing Dragoman Istanbul Janissaries Kotor Bay of North Africa North African corsairs Nova Perast sacking of 1624 Piracy Salvago Giovanni Battista Tunis Venice...

...Salim the Algerine (as he came to be known), son of an Ottoman official from Algiers, was captured by Spanish pirates in the western Mediterranean in the mid-eighteenth century, sold into slavery, and transported to Louisiana, from where he escaped and ultimately found shelter in English settler...

...The Battle of Algiers, 1966 This chapter examines how torture is often misrepresented in classic and contemporary film by focusing on Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966), suggesting that directors and actors tend to choose the accepted iconography...

...This chapter explores the broad legacy of colonial psychiatry for the relationship between France and North Africa in the post-colonial era. Through an analysis of post-colonial film, literature, and medical writings, it highlights the vestiges of the Algiers School's work in the global present...

... circumstances that shaped the rise and decline of the Algiers School as a scientific center on the imperial periphery. Colonial psychiatrists were the first to implement entire networks of psychiatric care structured around the principle of mental hygiene and prophylaxis. They made Algiers the undisputed center...

... of Algiers and Rabat. In the conclusion, Paris’s urban history is intertwined with French colonial history to situate the banlieues as a monument of (post)colonial legacy and decolonial memory. This reconstruction of the history of the city through its historical and geographic margins contribute...

... Racism Separation Totality and Infinity Levinas Hospitality Language Le Prénom de Dieu Cixous Subjectivity “My Algeriance ” Violence Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas Derrida Colonialism The Book to Come Blanchot Djebar Assia “How Not to Speak of Algeria ” Battle of Algiers Hospitality Invitation...

... on the foundation of the Algiers Law Faculty (École de Droit d’Alger) and pioneering activities of Robert Estoublon and Ernest Zeys. The second part discusses developments on the European continent in comparative law, legal history, and German legal thought, highlighting ideas that were to become prominent...

... of thematic material make it distinctly twentieth-century and provide a rich and engaging musical journey. Camille Saint-Saëns prodigy polymath woodwind sonata Sonata for Oboe and Piano Durand Paris Conservatory astronomy Paris Algiers Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) was born in Paris, France...

... themselves more insistently with Spain, the power that seemed best able to stand up to the Turks. Algiers Barbary corsairs Canaries Elba Genoa Habsburgs Indians Jerba Lepanto The reshaping of the Mediterranean in the wake of the Black Death was a slow process. In addition to political changes within...

...British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580–1750. Bernard Capp, Oxford University Press. © Bernard Capp 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192857378.003.0001 The Prologue opens with the story of John Rawlins, who was captured and sold into slavery at Algiers in 1621, and led a successful...