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Liberté, Égalité, Torture
Agee, Philip | May 21, 1990 issue

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This article critically appraises the book "Torture: The Role of Ideology in the French-Algerian War," by Rita Maran; In searching for answers, Maran reviews the statements and writings of major and minor participants and observers of the eight-year Algerian conflict as they relate to torture and France's all-out effort to keep Algeria French. This review, the core of her book, focuses on three categories of actors: government officials, the military and intellectuals. The common ideological strand is at times explicit, at times only implied, with some viewing defeat of the civilizing mission in Algeria as equivalent to the destruction of French civilization in its entirety.

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TORTURE (Book); MARAN, Rita; INTELLECTUALS; CIVILIZATION; IDEOLOGY; BOOKS & reading
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