Books by Neil MacMaster

The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Contemporary anti-Algerian racism is shown to have deep roots in moves by colonial elites to control and police the migrants and to segregate them from contact with Communism, nationalist movements and the French working class.

Based on extensive interviews with two Spaniard men who grew-up in peasant villages of Asturias during the 1930s. Their account provides a 'grassroots' insight into the poverty and social tensions of local life which eventually led to civil war.

During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the subject. -- .

The study of modern racism has tended to treat anti-Semitism and anti-black racism as separate and unconnected phenomena. By weaving together the changing spatial and temporal dimensions of anti-Semitic and anti-black prejudice the study provides a fresh and more global framework for understanding modern racism.