James D. Le Sueur teaches history at the University of Nebraska.
"Le Sueur displays a very solid understanding of the military, political, and social history of the French-Algerian War, as well as the broader histories of the French Republic and of the French colonial empire. His work is thoroughly up-to-date and combines ease of accessibility with genuine erudition and scholarly rigor throughout."--Philip D. Dine, author of Images of the Algerian War: French Fiction and Film, 1954-1992 "This book is beautifully researched. Le Sueur has not just based his work on the huge amount of published material; he also found rich archival sources that I don't think anyone imagined would be available. Some telling personal interviews with the major actors give the book an added sense of their anguish during the war... The chapter on Camus alone is worth the price of the book."--William B. Cohen, Indiana University "Uncivil War is an invaluable record of the often neglected influence of metropolitan and colonial intelligentsia on the course of anticolonial struggles, and of the weight of colonial violence in shaping and consolidating 'identity politics' in Algerian and France... Indispensable reading for reassessing the greater historical significance of the Algerian War."--Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations "Forceful, well-argued, and superbly researched. This work opens up new ground."--David L. Schalk, author of War and the Ivory Tower: Algeria and Vietnam "In Uncivil War, James D. Le Sueur draws from a wealth of interviews and private papers to offer important insights into the contested issues of identity politics among French and Algerian intellectuals during the French-Algerian War, 1954-62."--Journal of Modern History
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