Africa and World War II

Herausgeber: Brown, Carolyn A.; Parsons, Timothy; Byfield, Judith

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 960g
• ISBN-13: 9781107053205
• ISBN-10: 110705320X
• Artikelnr.: 42025773

Inhaltsangabe

1. The experiences of ordinary Africans in World War II T. Parsons; 2.
Producing for the war J. A. Byfield; 3. African labor in the making of
World War II C. Brown; 4. The military, race, and resistance: the
conundrums of recruiting black South African men during the Second World
War L. Grundlingh; 5. The Moroccan 'effort de guerre' in World War II D.
Maghraoui; 6. Free to coerce: forced labor during and after the Vichy years
in French West Africa C. B. Ash; 7. No country fit for heroes: the plight
of disabled Kenyan veterans T. Parsons; 8. Women, rice, and war: political
and economic crisis in war-time Abeokuta (Nigeria) J. A. Byfield; 9.
Africa's 'battle for rubber' in the Second World War W. G. Clarence-Smith;
10. Freetown and World War II: strategic militarization, accommodation, and
resistance A. M. Howard; 11. Free France, unfree Africa: extraction and
labor in French Equatorial Africa under free French rule E. T. Jennings;
12. The Portuguese African colonies and World War II M. Newitt; 13. Pit
sawyers, rubber tappers, and forest farmers: World War II and the
transformation of the Tanzanian forests T. Sunseri; 14. Wrestling with race
on the eve of human rights: British management of the color line in
post-fascist Eritrea G. Barrera; 15. To be treated as a man: masculinity,
race, and the imperial state in the Nigerian coal industry C. Brown; 16. 'A
white man's war': settler masculinity in the Union Defense Force, 1939-45
S. Chetty; 17. African soldiers, French women, and colonial fears during
and after World War II R. Ginio; 18. World War II and the sex trade in
British West Africa C. Ray; 19. American missions in war-time French West
Africa B. M. Cooper; 20. Fighting fascism: Ethiopian women patriots 1935-41
H. Habtu and J. A. Byfield; 21. Defending the land of their ancestors:
African American military experience in Africa during World War II D.
Hutchinson; 22. French African soldiers in German POW camps, 1940-5 R.
Scheck; 23. Resistance and mobilization: Guinea and World War II E.
Schmidt; 24. Sudanese response to World War II A. Sikainga; 25. Uganda
after World War II C. Summers; 26. Consequences of the war A. Sikainga.