Lethal Provocation by Joshua Cole

Lethal Provocation by Joshua Cole

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...

Moving seamlessly between a range of historical registers, Cole offers at once a history of religious life under French colonial rule, a portrait of socio-cultural change in a transforming colonial city, an analysis of the intersections of metropolitan and colonial politics in the 1930s, and a granular reconstruction of the events worthy of a great criminologistLethal Provocation will remain a classic in French colonial studies for decades to come.

(Alf Andrew Heggogy Book Prize Citation)

Joshua Cole's fascinating and extremely well-researched and well-written Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders adn the Politics of French Algeria is like a strong wind in the sails of the microhistorical method.

(AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW)

Cole has done a great service in unpacking all of this, and has managed to do so while producing a gripping history that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

(Journal of Modern History)

Meticulously researched and deftly constructed, Cole's work delineates how the riots, long mischaracterized and misunderstood by contemporaries and historians alike, shed new light on the activities of neofascist elements of the French right in Algeria. The author offers not only a fascinating glimpse into the conspiracy and the official coverup, but in reconstructing social relations on the local level, he illuminates the twisted racial logic(s) of the French colonial state.

(Histoire sociale/Social History)

Joshua Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century European history and has published work on gender and the history of the population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. His book The Power of Large Numbers was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 by Choice Magazine. He is also coauthor, with Carol Symes, of Western Civilizations.

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ISBN 13	9781501739415
ISBN 10	1501739417
Title	Lethal Provocation
Author	Joshua Cole
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2019-09-15
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of J. Russell Major Prize 2020 (United States), Winner of Mimi S. Frank Award in Sephardic Culture 2020 (United States), Winner of Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize 2020 (United States)
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