2:30-4:25P      T     WH109

Above section meets with WEUR W405/W605
A portion of the above section reserved for majors
B300: Graduate students register for HIST T500

The French and Algerian War, one of the longest wars of the past
half-century, was a colonial revolt that led to a virtual civil war
between Frenchmen and the creation of the French Fifth Republic.
Issues like the systematic use of both terror-bombings (the Algerians)
and torture (the French) made the war the focus for debate by
intellectuals on the morality and politics of modern conflict.  In
addition to looking at the course of the war, from 1954 to 1962,  this
course will examine the writings of major public intellectuals on the
war including Sartre, Fanon, and Camus and politicians like De Gaulle
and Ben Bella.

The course assumes no previous knowledge of either French or North
African history and will consist of a mixture of lectures and class
discussion.