Racializing the Soldier offers an international history of the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces. Focusing mostly on colonial and post-colonial armies, it considers how the idea of race shaped military conflict in the modern world. This book was originally published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.
Racializing the Soldier offers an international history of the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces. Focusing mostly on colonial and post-colonial armies, it considers how the idea of race shaped military conflict in the modern world. This book was originally published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr Gavin Schaffer is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include race and immigration history, racial science, race and the media and the history of racial violence. Previous publications include Racial Science and British Society 1930-62 (2008) and The Lasting War: Society and Identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945 (2008).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Racializing the soldier: an introduction Gavin Schaffer 2. Making bodies modern: race, medicine and the colonial soldier in the mid-eighteenth century Erica Charters 3. Recruiting the 'martial races': identities and military service in colonial India Gavin Rand and Kim A. Wagner 4. Women and warfare at the start of the twentieth century: the racialization of the 'enemy' during the South African War (1899-1902) Zoë Denness 5. 'The Negro should not be used as a combat soldier': reconfiguring racial identity in the United States Army, 1890-1918 Bobby A. Wintermute 6. The language of sacrifice: masculinities in Northern Ireland and the consequences of the Great War Jane G. V. McGaughey 7. Creating difference: the racialization of Germany's Jewish soldiers after the First World War Tim Grady 8. In search of racial types: soldiers and the anthropological mapping of the Romanian nation, 1914-44 Marius Turda 9. 'Without intending any of the most undesirable features of a colour bar': race science, Europeanness and the British armed forces during the twentieth century Tony Kushner 10. Unmasking the 'muscle Jew': the Jewish soldier in British war service, 1899-1945 Gavin Schaffer 11. The embodiment of British Italian war memory? The curious marginalization of Dennis Donnini, VC Wendy Ugolini
1. Racializing the soldier: an introduction Gavin Schaffer 2. Making bodies modern: race, medicine and the colonial soldier in the mid-eighteenth century Erica Charters 3. Recruiting the 'martial races': identities and military service in colonial India Gavin Rand and Kim A. Wagner 4. Women and warfare at the start of the twentieth century: the racialization of the 'enemy' during the South African War (1899-1902) Zoë Denness 5. 'The Negro should not be used as a combat soldier': reconfiguring racial identity in the United States Army, 1890-1918 Bobby A. Wintermute 6. The language of sacrifice: masculinities in Northern Ireland and the consequences of the Great War Jane G. V. McGaughey 7. Creating difference: the racialization of Germany's Jewish soldiers after the First World War Tim Grady 8. In search of racial types: soldiers and the anthropological mapping of the Romanian nation, 1914-44 Marius Turda 9. 'Without intending any of the most undesirable features of a colour bar': race science, Europeanness and the British armed forces during the twentieth century Tony Kushner 10. Unmasking the 'muscle Jew': the Jewish soldier in British war service, 1899-1945 Gavin Schaffer 11. The embodiment of British Italian war memory? The curious marginalization of Dennis Donnini, VC Wendy Ugolini
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