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A Counter-History of French Colonization Author|Al Gofa breath and fabricIn A Counter History of French Colonization, Franco Moroccan author Driss Ghali surveys the modern history of French colonization in comparative perspective, from the capture of Algiers in July 1830 to the wave of decolonizations that followed the Second World War. The story Ghali tells is a tragic one: despite what were often the best of intentions, French colonial administration was generally a slapdash affair, ill conceived, ill executed, and