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This 7 page paper discusses the French colonization of Algeria; colonization in general; and reviews the book "Fantasia" by Assia Djebar, an Algerian. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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French colonial period; colonization in general; and reviews Assia Djebars book Fantasia, about her experiences in the war. French Algeria Despite "intense popular resistance," Algeria was annexed to France (French
colonization, 2002). The French government used "land-owning incentives" to induce French citizens to move to the new colony; they also introduce "a wide variety of measures to modernize Algeria, imposing
European-style culture, infrastructure, economics, education, industries and government institutions on the country" (French colonization, 2002). As almost always happens in these circumstances, the colonials "exploited the countrys agricultural resources for
the benefit of France" (French colonization, 2002). Not only did the idea of "French Algeria" become "ingrained in the French collective mind, but the early period of colonization appears to
have been disastrous for the native population: it fell "from around 4 million in 1830 to only 2.5 million in 1890 (French colonization, 2002). The French colonials considered the natives,
who were Muslim, inferior and believed they had to be "tightly controlled" (French colonization, 2002). Muslims could not bear arms, hold public meetings or travel without permission of the French
government (French colonization, 2002). Even worse, and a terrible insult, Algerians "could not become French citizens unless they renounced Islam and converted to Christianity" (French colonization, 2002). The colonial regime
was brutal and racist, and it "alienated the vast majority of Algerians" (French colonization, 2002). The French attempted to "acculturate" an elite class of Algerians but the attempt backfired; those
Algerians who had been at school in France or adopted French values "suffered the inherent racism of their French overlords and became the nucleus of the Algerian nationalist movement" (French
colonization, 2002). The move for nationalism "emerged between the two World Wars," and though it first was a movement only to demand civil rights for indigenous Algerians, it soon built
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