Reconsidering the history of Algerian independence: a book review essay

A breath of fresh air, a welcome gust of the innovative: that is what this book brings to the field of studies of contemporary Algeria and, in particular, to the realm of historiography about the political currents that animated Algerian nationalism before, during, and after the war for liberation. This work by Nedjib Sidi Moussa is the product of a vast doctoral project defended at the Universit  Paris 1 Panth on-Sorbonne in 2013. Now it is finally published: simultaneously by PUF in France and  ditions Barzakh in Algeria, following a tendency to circulate scholarly works on both sides of the Mediterranean which has happily intensified in recent years. The novelty of the work is at least tripartite since, as befits every ambitious project, it has to do as much with the subject of study as with the method chosen and the sources selected.