Mediterranean entanglements: Algeria and France between colonization and decolonization

Research project of  Prof. Dr. Manuel Borutta


In his current book project he explores the specific role Southern France played within the colonization and decolonization of Algeria. By focusing on interactions between the island of Corsica, port cities such as Port-Vendres, Sète, and Marseille, rural areas like the Midi viticole on the one hand and different parts of Algeria (Oran, Algiers, Constantine) on the other, his monograph will bring together strands of scholarship that are still compartmentalized into local, regional, national and colonial subfields. In this way, his book aims to show that Southern Europe and North Africa were so closely linked by Mediterranean entanglements that they cannot be analyzed separately..