Africa and World War II (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Byfield, Judith A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research and innovative approaches to the historiography of Africa and bring to the fore issues of race, gender, and labor during the war, topics that have not yet received much critical attention. It explores the experiences of male and female combatants, peasant producers, women traders, missionaries, and sex workers. The first section offers three introductory essays that give a continent-wide overview of how Africa sustained the Allied effort through labor and resources. The six sections that follow offer individual case studies from different parts of the continent. Contributors offer a macro and micro view of the multiple levels on which Africa's contributions shaped the war as well as the ways in which the war affected individuals and communities and transformed Africa's political, economic, and social landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316288474
• Artikelnr.: 52854060

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.