A History of Algeria is a book by James McDougall and published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press.

The work is an overview of the history of Algeria from the sixteenth century until 2016.

[1] The work contains normal front material, including maps, followed by an introduction by the author, and seven main chapters: The work concludes with an afterward and bibliography.

[2] James Robert McDougall FRHistS[5] (born 1974) is a British historian.

He is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Oxford and Laithwaite Fellow in History at Trinity College, Oxford.