Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery
Evidence
It was not so much the fault of the French — “because they simply weren’t there” — but the sheer harsh facts of population pressure. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 346
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Constantine Plan produced measurable Algerian economic and educational gains.; Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled; French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms (+6 more)
Related
- French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms (similarity 0.90)
- Overpopulation provides a fertile breeding ground for Fundamentalism in Algeria (similarity 0.84)
- Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled (similarity 0.84)
- Algerian integration would numerically swamp metropolitan France politically. (similarity 0.82)
- Demographic arithmetic made Algerian integration untenable for France by 1958 (similarity 0.82)
- The Constantine Plan produced measurable Algerian economic and educational gains. (similarity 0.81)
- France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
- Integration would have demographically swamped metropolitan France (similarity 0.80)
- Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.80)
- The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.80)
- A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims (similarity 0.79)
- The Constantine Plan made unprecedented economic investment in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
- Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt (similarity 0.78)
- Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. (similarity 0.78)
- Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.78)