War Veterans and the World after 1945 (eBook, PDF)

Cold War Politics, Decolonization, Memory
Redaktion: Alcalde, Ángel; Núñez Seixas, Xosé M.

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Produktbeschreibung

As a consequence of World War II, there were more than 100 million war veterans living in different regions of the world in 1945 while in subsequent decades, the number of people with war experience further increased with new armed conflicts in Asia and Africa. However, veterans have been largely neglected in global historical accounts of the post-1945 era. Spanning historical cases from the United States to South Africa, from Algeria to Iran, this book offers a global perspective into veterans' history since World War II. Cold War struggles, racial conflict, decolonization, development, and contested memories marked the experiences of veterans in the making of our times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351119979
• Artikelnr.: 54111793

Autorenporträt

Ángel Alcalde obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015. He was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich in 2016-2017. He has also been a visiting scholar at the European Institute at Columbia University (New York), the Leibniz-Institute for European History (Mainz), and the Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University. His latest book is War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Xosé M. Núñez Seixas is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the LMU of Munich (2012-1017). He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books on nationalist movements, national and regional identities, history of migration, and the cultural and social history of war in the twentieth century. His latest books are Die spanische Blaue Division an der Ostfront (1941-45) (Aschendorff, 2016) and (ed.) Metaphors of Spain (Berghahn, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction (Ángel Alcalde and
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas) Part One: The Cold War 2. The making and unmaking of
the international anti-fascist resistance fighter (Václav midrkal) 3. The
World Veterans Federation: Cold War politics and globalization (Ángel
Alcalde) 4. For Peace and Disarmament: Italian Disabled Ex-Servicemen and
détente (Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre) Part Two: Race and Decolonization 5. South
African Veterans and the Institutionalization of Apartheid in South Africa
(Jonathan Fennell) 6. Enforcing Conformity: Race in the American Legion,
1940-1960 (Olivier Burtin) 7. "Warriors Again": Native American Vietnam
Veterans in the Decolonization Movement, 1969-1973 (Matthias Voigt) 8.
Poppies, pensions, passports: the British Legion and transnational civil
society action in decolonizing Hong Kong (Daniel Schumacher) Part Three:
Decolonization and Development 9. Colonial soldiers and postcolonial
politics in Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Upper Volta, 1958-1973 (Riina Turtio)
10. Algerian veterans associations in the late colonial period in Algeria
(1945-1962) (Samuel André-Berkovici) 11. Development, Mobilization, and War
in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Case of the Trench Builders
Association (1979-2013) (Eric Lob) 12. Veterans and land expropriation in
Post-Independence Zimbabwe (Obert Bernard Mlambo) Part Four: Memory 13.
Inconvenient heroes? War veterans from the Eastern front in Franco's Spain
(1942-1975) (Xosé M. Núñez Seixas) 14. Imagination and Authority in the
Testimonies of French Veterans of the Algerian War of Decolonization
(1954-1962) (Hugh McDonnell) 15. State Power, Cultural Exchange and the
'Forgotten War': British Veterans of the Korean War, 1953-2011 (Grace
Huxford) 16. Retracing Memories of War: South African Military Veterans as
Tourists in Angola (Gary Fred Baines). Index.