Richard Smith

Jamaican volunteers in the First World War

Race, masculinity and the development of national consciousness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking study that uncovers the expereince of black Jamaican soldiers to provide a fresh historical insight into the First World War. A book that will appeal to undergraduates and general readers interested in warfare, Imperial and black history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780719069864
• ISBN-10: 0719069866
• Artikelnr.: 26953767

Autorenporträt

Richard Smith wrote his PhD thesis on China's economic reforms and has written extensively Chinese issues for New Left Review, Monthly Review, Real-World Economics Review, and Ecologist. He has also written essays collected in Green Capitalism: The God that Failed (2016) and in The Democracy Collaborative's Next System Project (2017). Smith is also a founding member of the US-based group System Change Not Climate Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Degeneration and male hysteria: the wartime crisis of white
masculinity 2. 'The cannon's summoning roar': Jamaica and the outbreak of
war 3. The recruitment of Jamaican volunteers 4. Jamaican soldiers in
Europe and the Middle East 5. 'Their splendid physical proportions': the
black soldier in the white imagination 6. Discrimination and mutiny 7.
Military endeavour, nationalism and Pan-Africanism Index