Readership: Scholars and students of modern French history; imperial and colonial historians; historians of migration and ethnicity
Jim House, Lecturer in French, University of Leeds, and Neil MacMaster, Honorary Reader, University of East Anglia
"[A] remarkable book...a very well-researched study which will become the definitive work on the subject." - French History
"...the mastery of sources and the authority of judgement in Jim House and Neil MacMaster's Paris 1961" - Todd Shepard History Workshop Journal
General Introduction Part I: Colonial Violence and State Terror Introduction 1: Papon and the Colonial Origins of Police Violence 2: The FLN Counter-State and Police Repression 1958-1961 3: The Police Crisis and Terror July to 16 October 1961 4: The Demonstrations of 17 to 20 October 1961 5: The Political Crisis 18 October to 1 December 1961 6: Counting the Victims and Identifying the Killers Part II: Revisiting October and the Afterlives of Memory Introduction 7: Contesting Colonial Repression 1945-1961 8: Fragmented Reactions to State Violence September-November 1961 9: The Marginalization of 17 October 1961 (1961-1968) 10: 'Underground' Memories 1962-1979 11: Emergent Memories 1980-1997? 12: Ever-Present Memories? Conclusion Bibliography Index
