https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Effervescence-of-Algerian-Independence https://booksandideas.net/The-Effervescence-of-Algerian-Independence 2024-01-30T07:11:00Z text/html en Alain Messaoudi History Algeria decolonization independence emotion Cairn.info <p>How did the ordinary population experience the year 1962, when power was transferred from the colonial authorities to the representatives of the Algerian people? In the absence of archive material, Malika Rahal offers us a history rooted in emotions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Postcolonial-Archipelago https://booksandideas.net/Postcolonial-Archipelago 2019-10-28T08:00:00Z text/html en Jack Corbett International postcolonial studies Caribbeans sovereignty independence Books and ideas originals <p>Small jurisdictions of the Caribbeans are not only offshore facilities, but also political entities, products of colonial history and local societies. An edited volume explores the different ways in which non-sovereign territories of the archipelago have maintained ties with their former European colonisers.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Spain-s-Digital-Civil-War https://booksandideas.net/Spain-s-Digital-Civil-War 2017-10-27T07:00:00Z text/html en Alvaro Santana Acuña Politics Society History democracy Spain catalanism independence <p>Today, while tension between Catalonia and Spain ebbs and flows, a digital civil war is being fought on social media. No truce is in sight.</p> https://booksandideas.net/African-Independence-Reconsidered https://booksandideas.net/African-Independence-Reconsidered 2014-09-08T07:00:00Z text/html en Alden Young Politics Economy Africa history empire decolonization global history independence <p>Denouncing the neglect of the independence era by African historians, Frederick Cooper asserts that a continent of nation-states was not the inevitable outcome of decolonization.</p>