Neil Macmaster
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 239048 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Macmaster |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Macmaster |
| FIRMA | MACMASTER N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
La politique de la famine
La race, objet d’histoire sociale
La race, objet d’histoire sociale
Sylvie Thénault, Les Ratonnades d’Alger, 1956. Une histoire de racisme colonial (Paris
Les écrivains noirs américains, le Café Le Tournon et le massacre d’octobre 1961
War in the Mountains
The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) has been long neglected by historians, in part because they have been viewed as a ‘primitive’ mass devoid of political consciousness. This ground-breaking social history challenges this conventional understanding by tracing the ability of the peasant community to sustain an autonomous political culture through family, clan, and village assemblies (djemâa), organizations t…
War in the Mountains
The Algerian Café-Hotel
Des révolutionnaires invisibles
Les historiens ont étudié dans un certain détail la Fédération de France du Front de libération nationale (FLN), implantée dans l'univers majoritairement masculin des travailleurs immigrés, mais on ne sait presque rien du rôle des femmes algériennes, qui arrivèrent en nombre croissant au cours de la Guerre d'indépendance. Cet article s'appuie sur des archives internes jusqu'ici inconnues de la Section des femmes du FLN et sur des entretiens avec …
The Roots of Insurrection
Interpretations of the origins of the Algerian war of independence have tended to emphasize either discontinuity-the radical dislocation of precolonial social and political structures following the French conquest-or the continuity of a culture of peasant resistance between 1871 and 1954. Little investigation has been carried out into the latter, or how, if at all, socio-political institutions enabled rural society to sustain an unbroken 'traditi…
The Role of European Women and the Question of Mixed Couples in the Algerian Nationalist Movement in France, Circa 1918–1962
Interwar migration of Algerian workers to France, predominantly a movement of single males, led to the formation of numerous mixed couples, a pattern that was remarkably different from the high level of ethnic and religious segregation in the colony. This article examines the significant but largely unrecognized role of European women in the émigré nationalist movement. After 1945, and in particular with the start of the War of Independence, fami…
Time to Move On
In the General Introduction and Conclusion to our book, Paris 1961: Algerians, state terror, and memory , we argue that the time has come to move beyond the current phase of political battle, the fixed-position trench warfare, over the events of ‘17 October’ for a more open history that can begin to address some wider and more fruitful questions. At the core of the polemic during the last decade has been the almost obsessive ‘battle of numbers’ t…
Paris 1961
The massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police on the night of 17 October 1961 is one of the most contested events in contemporary French history. This book provides a multi-layered investigation of the repression through a critical examination of newly opened archives, oral sources, the press and contemporary political movements and debates. The roots of violence are traced back to counter-insurgency techniques developed by the Frenc…
La Fédération de France du FLN et l'organisation de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961
L'article donne un nouvel aperçu, grâce à la consultation de documents internes du FLN et d'archives de la préfecture de police, du rôle déterminant de la fédération FLN de France dans la préparation de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961. Cette structure clandestine basée à Paris, jusque là inconnue, très centralisée, communique par l'intermédiaire d'un réseau de porteurs de valises avec le comité fédéral en Allemagne. Elle organise la manifesta…
La Federation de France du FLN et l'organisation du 17 octobre 1961
L’article donne un nouvel aperçu, grâce à la consultation de documents internes du FLN et d’archives de la préfecture de police, du rôle déterminant de la fédération FLN de France dans la préparation de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961. Cette structure clandestine basée à Paris, jusque là inconnue, très centralisée, communique par l’intermédiaire d’un réseau de porteurs de valises avec le comité fédéral en Allemagne. Elle organise la manifesta…
Torture
The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq focused worldwide media attention on the US practice of torture. Underlying such a practice was not only a self-serving debate in US political circles, academia and entertainment media on how a liberal democracy could justify such methods but also a history of counter-insurgency techniques which owed much to French warfare in Algeria. Yet while the lessons of the torturer have been assiduous…
Imperial Façades
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the interrelationship between expressions of colonial power, orientalist architecture and town planning.1 Attention has centred on the syncretic relationship between western and Islamic architecture and design, both overseas in the British and French colonies or spheres of influence (from Istanbul and Cairo to Algiers and Rabat) and in the imperial heartland. Within western Europe a major field…
The torture controversy (1998-2002)
During the last two years media attention has centred on the issue of torture during the Algerian war. An exploration of this debate shows that the deep passions and tensions which have, in the past, bitterly divided the participants in the war and prevented an objective historical investigation or dialogue, are now receding. In France, in spite of a long history of state secrecy surrounding 'sensitive' archives, there has been a quiet but signif…
Blackness Without Blacks
In this chapter we examine how it was possible for Europeans to have a racialized view of the black between c.1870 and 1914, even though the vast majority had had no direct contact with or ever seen a black person. On the whole our purpose will not be to examine in any detail scientific racist thought, or the works of physical anthropologists on the 'Negro', but rather the question of how and why anti-black stereotypes achieved such a remarkable …
Racism in Europe 1870–2000
Uncivil War
Reviews of Books Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria By James D. Le Sueur. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. 342 pp. £30. ISBN 0 8122 3588 6. NEIL MACMASTER NEIL MACMASTER University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/15.3.354 Pu…
Jean Laloum, Les Juifs dans la banlieue parisienne des années 20 aux années 50 . Paris
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Black Jew ‐ white Negro’ anti‐Semitism and the construction of cross‐racial stereotypes
The relationship between anti‐Semitism and anti‐black racism in Europe has been largely neglected by scholars. The article examines one facet of this problematic by exploring the ways in which after c.1860 the rise of modern anti‐Semitism was accompanied by stereotypes that racialized the Jews through associating them with the most ‘primitive’ racial modality, the black African. Against a background of deepening political anti‐Semitism, colonial …
Colonial Migrants and Racism
Orientalism
Colonial Migrants and Racism
The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Full attention is given to the relationship between the society of emigration, undermi
Orientalism
The torture controversy (1998-2002)
During the last two years media attention has centred on the issue of torture during the Algerian war. An exploration of this debate shows that the deep passions and tensions which have, in the past, bitterly divided the participants in the war and prevented an objective historical investigation or dialogue, are now receding. In France, in spite of a long history of state secrecy surrounding 'sensitive' archives, there has been a quiet but signif…
Torture
The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq focused worldwide media attention on the US practice of torture. Underlying such a practice was not only a self-serving debate in US political circles, academia and entertainment media on how a liberal democracy could justify such methods but also a history of counter-insurgency techniques which owed much to French warfare in Algeria. Yet while the lessons of the torturer have been assiduous…
The Role of European Women and the Question of Mixed Couples in the Algerian Nationalist Movement in France, Circa 1918–1962
Interwar migration of Algerian workers to France, predominantly a movement of single males, led to the formation of numerous mixed couples, a pattern that was remarkably different from the high level of ethnic and religious segregation in the colony. This article examines the significant but largely unrecognized role of European women in the émigré nationalist movement. After 1945, and in particular with the start of the War of Independence, fami…
The Battle for Mousehold Heath 1857-1884
THE BATTLE FOR MOUSEHOLD HEATH 1857-1884: "POPULAR POLITICS" AND THE VICTORIAN PUBLIC PARK Get access Neil MacMaster Neil MacMaster University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 127, Issue 1, May 1990, Pages 117–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/127.1.117 Published: 01 May 1990
Time to Move On
In the General Introduction and Conclusion to our book, Paris 1961: Algerians, state terror, and memory , we argue that the time has come to move beyond the current phase of political battle, the fixed-position trench warfare, over the events of ‘17 October’ for a more open history that can begin to address some wider and more fruitful questions. At the core of the polemic during the last decade has been the almost obsessive ‘battle of numbers’ t…
The Algerian Café-Hotel
The Roots of Insurrection
Interpretations of the origins of the Algerian war of independence have tended to emphasize either discontinuity-the radical dislocation of precolonial social and political structures following the French conquest-or the continuity of a culture of peasant resistance between 1871 and 1954. Little investigation has been carried out into the latter, or how, if at all, socio-political institutions enabled rural society to sustain an unbroken 'traditi…
La Federation de France du FLN et l'organisation du 17 octobre 1961
L’article donne un nouvel aperçu, grâce à la consultation de documents internes du FLN et d’archives de la préfecture de police, du rôle déterminant de la fédération FLN de France dans la préparation de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961. Cette structure clandestine basée à Paris, jusque là inconnue, très centralisée, communique par l’intermédiaire d’un réseau de porteurs de valises avec le comité fédéral en Allemagne. Elle organise la manifesta…
Spanish Fighters
Spanish Fighters
The Concentration Camp of Septfonds — David
From La Tour de Carol we were taken by train to Septfonds, but when we arrived at the station it was a long way from the camp and we were all lined up between ranks of Senegalese soldiers to make our way there on foot. I don’t know whether you can imagine what it was like, that enormous file of refugees, crippled soldiers, wounded men, all sorts, all strung out in a huge column. The French guards were shouting, ‘Allez! Allez! Everyone to the camp…
The Battle for Mousehold Heath 1857-1884
THE BATTLE FOR MOUSEHOLD HEATH 1857-1884: "POPULAR POLITICS" AND THE VICTORIAN PUBLIC PARK Get access Neil MacMaster Neil MacMaster University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 127, Issue 1, May 1990, Pages 117–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/127.1.117 Published: 01 May 1990
The Spanish Civil War in Literature
Short notices
Désalmand, P. and Hongre, B., Douze poèmes de Baudelaire analysés et commentés (Marabout, 1993), 324pp., ISBN 2 501 01758 7 Higgins, I., ed., Anthology of Second World War French Poetry (University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1994), 136pp., £9.00, ISBN 0 85261 446 2 Jost, F. and Leblanc, G., La Télévision française au jour le jour (Anthropos‐Economica/INA, 1994), 143pp., 95F., ISBN 2 7178 2676 9 Kaplan, A. and Roussin P., Céline US…
Departure and Employment
During the first forty years of emigration (1910–1950) the structure of the noria , the rotation of single males, remained essentially unchanged. In this and the following two chapters I shall provide a composite picture of the experience of the ‘typical’ migrant. This chapter looks first at the social context in which the decision to migrate was taken, the underlying strategies involved, how the difficult journey to France was undertaken and the…
Kabylia and the Migrant Tradition
Throughout the first half-century of emigration (c.1905–1950) there existed a remarkable variation between zones of high and low emigration. The great majority of Algerians in France were Kabyles, the mountain-dwellers of Berber descent, who inhabited the sedentary peasant villages of Greater and Lesser Kabylia to the east of Algiers. 1 This predominance was reflected in the title of the first official inquiry into Algerian emigration carried out…
Conclusion
In France in recent years there has been a growing debate among politicians, journalists and academics about what has been termed ‘exclusion’, the deepening social, economic and political marginalisation of the poor, of unemployed youth, and of ethnic minorities. Attention has focused in particular on the ‘ banlieue ’ [suburb], a key-word that has come to signify the enormous, high-rise estates of public housing located on the fringes of the majo…
Islam and the Village
When French journalists and commentators peered from a distance at the shadowy world of the North African immigrant one of the questions which was uppermost in their minds was the extent to which they were assimilating to ‘French civilisation’. This chapter looks at two key elements in the definition of Algerian identity and culture, first Islamic practice and then the relationship to the values of the home society, to assess the extent to which …
Emigration
The destruction of colonial society and the resulting impoverishment and demographic pressure were not sufficient causes of emigration to France. The neo-classical theory of the free movement of labour from zones of low wages and surplus labour (the colony) to zones of high wages and labour shortage (the metropole), like water finding the same level between two interconnecting tanks, is entirely inadequate. It fails to take account of the fact th…
Working-class Racism
The concepts of ‘race’ and ‘racism’ present notoriously thorny and controversial problems of definition. I concur with those who interpret ‘race’ as a social construct. Racial categories cannot be explained through a ‘scientific’ system of classification based on biological/genetic methods but are ideological constructs, forms of boundary definition between groups, that have evolved within specific historical and social contexts. ‘“Races” are soc…
Élite Racism and the Colonial Lobby
The process by which Algerian migrants were targeted and categorised in racial terms reached a crucial phase during the period 1920–4 and was primarily the work of various colonial pressure groups. Their central object of concern was the liberal provision of the law of 15 July 1914 which had granted all Algerians complete freedom of movement to France. In the light of the later intense pressures to eradicate or cripple the working of the law it i…
Life in the Enclave
A key feature of the social, political and economic organisation of the Algerians in France was their spatial location in dense ‘micro-ghettos’ or urban enclaves. This chapter will examine the position of migrants within the housing market, the processes of enclave formation, and the rich associational life of the Algerians which was centred on the North African café-lodging house. The organisation of the Algerians in introverted and compact kin …
Policing and Surveillance in France
Although the colonial lobby was successful in its campaign for stringent immigration controls, the administrative hurdles were still insufficient to block the movement to France. The statistics of departures from Algerian ports, while showing a dramatic fall immediately following the Chautemps decrees, soon recovered and in 1926 reached nearly 50 000 men (see Table Al). Experienced migrants quickly learned how to cope with the administrative requ…
Emigration and the Algerian War, 1954–62
The Algerian War of 1954–62, one of the longest and bloodiest wars of decolonisation, was to mark a watershed, a dramatic increase in the rate of emigration to France. During this period of strife the number of Algerians in France grew from 211 000 to 350 000. One paradox of the crisis was that it almost doubled the number of immigrants in the metropolitan heartland of the colonial power with whom Algerians were at war. As airplanes departed ince…
Colonial Crisis and Emigration, 1930–54
As we have seen, until the Second World War the majority of emigrants came from the Kabyle region. It is now time to look at the contradiction which was mentioned in Chapter 2 between this geographical distribution and the general theory of emigration put forward by post-colonial historians which maintains that emigration was a direct consequence of colonial destruction and land dispossession. The map of emigration (1910–49) shows an inverse rela…
Colonial Destruction of Algerian Society
Colonialism, in association with the corrosive impact of capitalism, was an almost universal determinant of ‘Third World’ migrations into Europe in the twentieth century. Algerian migration to France shared many of the general features through which military conquest and the economic dislocation of traditional pastoral and agrarian societies led to the impoverishment and displacement of peoples.1 However, each society of emigration had its own qu…
Colonial Migrants and Racism
The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Full attention is given to the relationship between the society of emigration, undermi
Colonial Migrants and Racism
Orientalism
Black Jew ‐ white Negro’ anti‐Semitism and the construction of cross‐racial stereotypes
The relationship between anti‐Semitism and anti‐black racism in Europe has been largely neglected by scholars. The article examines one facet of this problematic by exploring the ways in which after c.1860 the rise of modern anti‐Semitism was accompanied by stereotypes that racialized the Jews through associating them with the most ‘primitive’ racial modality, the black African. Against a background of deepening political anti‐Semitism, colonial …
Blackness Without Blacks
In this chapter we examine how it was possible for Europeans to have a racialized view of the black between c.1870 and 1914, even though the vast majority had had no direct contact with or ever seen a black person. On the whole our purpose will not be to examine in any detail scientific racist thought, or the works of physical anthropologists on the 'Negro', but rather the question of how and why anti-black stereotypes achieved such a remarkable …
Racism in Europe 1870–2000
Uncivil War
Reviews of Books Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria By James D. Le Sueur. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. 342 pp. £30. ISBN 0 8122 3588 6. NEIL MACMASTER NEIL MACMASTER University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/15.3.354 Pu…
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