Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria

Author/Contributor(s):	Cole, Joshua
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2019
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Joshua Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists...