The full place of power

Interwar Oran, the French empire's bullring

Bibliographic Data

ID3979283
AuthorsClaire Marynower (0000-0002-1292-6471, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume18
Issue5
Pages690-702
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2013.849895
OpenAlexW2055425128
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

The only city in North Africa to feature a bullring, Oran presented a peculiar demographical and political profile in the French colony of Algeria. Violent place of conflicts between communities, notably French, Spanish and Jewish ones, since the end of the nineteenth century, it became during the 1930s a central arena of the campaign for a reform of Algerian institutions. In 1936–37, a partial and short-lived ‘mixed front’ gathered people from both the French left-wing and the Algerian organisations. Largely exaggerated by its adversaries, its significance proved crucial to understand the tensions that crossed the whole French empire at that time

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