From Sétif to Moramanga: identifying insurgents and ascribing guilt in the french colonial post-war
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Martin Thomas [1]
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[1] University of Exeter
University of Exeter
Exeter District, Reino Unido
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- Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 25, Nº. 2, 2018, pág. 4
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Focusing on the upsurge in anti-colonial insurgency between 1945 and 1947, this article explores critical transitions in colonial state violence in two French dependencies: Algeria and Madagascar. The suggestion is that official and local responses to colonial disorder in these immediate post-war years defined new, more violent parameters of French colonial counter-insurgency that would long endure. The argument connects the ascendancy of a new French political elite at the Liberation with a reconceptualization of imperial threats, particularly in those territories where political intelligence analysis and security policing became integral to day-to-day governance at the provincial, prefectural, or district levels
