Gregory Mann

Native Sons

West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In his lucid new study of Malian veterans of the French colonial army, Gregory Mann raises provocative new themes for writing conjoined local, colonial, and postcolonial histories. He has elegantly captured the dense web of human relations, discourses of obligation, and reconfigured social ties that link the dusty town of San (Mali) to the many other outposts of the republican imperial state as well as the postcolonial capitals of Paris and Bamako."--Alice L. Conklin, author of "A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337683
• ISBN-10: 0822337681
• Artikelnr.: 21175709

Autorenporträt

Gregory Mann is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Soldier Families and Slavery’s Echoes 29
2. Ex-Soldiers as Unruly Clients, 1914–40 63
3. Veterans and the Political Wars of 1940–60 108
4. A Military Culture on the Move: Tirailleurs Senegalais in France,
Africa, and Asia 146
5. Blood Debt, Immigrants, and Arguments 183
Conclusion 210
Appendix: Interviews 217
Abbreviations 221
Notes 225
References 295
Index 321