TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Resource War, Civil War, Rights War: Factoring Empire into French North Africa's Second World War
JO  - War in history
A1  - Thomas, Martin
SP  - 225
EP  - 248
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
N2  - This article considers the Second World War's socio-economic impact on the colonized populations of French North Africa's three adjoining territories: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It suggests that the war's significance for the long-term political future of French colonial rule was markedly different from that typically ascribed to it both by contemporary French and Allied observers and by subsequent historians of the conflict. This argument will be developed by contrasting the signpost events usually assigned to north-west Africa in strategic histories of the Second World War with the internal episodes, socio-political trends, and local changes in the fabric of colonial rule that, arguably, held greater importance for the region's people.<p /> 
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SN  - 0968-3445
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344510394265
ID  - ref1
ER  -