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Join the History Seminar for a discussion of Terrence Peterson's Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell University Press, 2024) which investigates how efforts to counter a revolution could also be revolutionary. The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation of the Global South. By tracing how French generals, officers, and civil officials sought to counter Algerian independence with their own project of radical social transformation, Peterson reveals that the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern warfare.
