Massinissa LATBI / Said BOUARABA
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
This is the story of a country caught in the stranglehold of power and rent. Conquered by cannon fire and smoke, dispossessed to the marrow of its bones by incomplete colonization, Algeria went from a complex social fabric, a peasantry and flexible brotherhoods, to a people expropriated, parked and trained to survive under foreign tutelage. From 1830 to 1871, soil and honor were burned, ancient structures crushed - to build on their ruins a colony vital to the bourgeois economy, but never fully digested by it. From 1871 to 1920, the colonial machine pushed forward its roads, rails and ports - draining resources to Marseille and Paris - without ever integrating the native majority, who were relegated to the margins as underpaid labor on their own land. When the national movement was born, it started out as an internationalist communist movement, then moved to the right. In 1962, the country gained its independence, but in the ashes of war, the national bourgeoisie emerged so weak that it had to rely on the only organized force: the border army.
