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- Beyond the Berbers\ explores the relationship between the United States and North Africa between the Berber Wars of the early 19th century and the European decolonization era after World War II.\ \*
Timothy Mason Roberts introduces a new approach to the study of empires, highlighting the importance of Algeria in French-American relations from the first French occupation of the country to the early years of the Algerian Republic's independence.As Roberts shows, the imperial authorities in Washington, D.C., Paris, and Algeria rarely cooperated intentionally in partnerships or institutional alliances. Instead, American, French, and Algerian politicians, soldiers, writers, and revolutionaries - often operating with conflicting goals and across political and cultural boundaries - sought power by imagining Algeria as a fractured, dynamic, and trans-imperial space. The book “ \ \ \Post-Berber \ \ \ \*” focuses on issues of settler colonialism, warinformality, ethnically based citizenship, territorial annexation, and pan-African identity, showing how French Algeria contributed to the building of the American and French empires.
