UID:
almafu_9960117014502883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 540 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-28847-1
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1-316-30920-7
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1-107-28201-2
Content:
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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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Part I. Introduction -- The experiences of ordinary Africans in World War II / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Producing for the war / Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University) -- African labor in the making of World War II / Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- Part II. Colonial subjects and imperial armies -- The military, race and resistance: the conundrums of recruiting Black South African men during the Second World War / Louis Grundlingh (University of Johannesburg) -- The Moroccan "effort de guerre" in World War II / Driss Maghraoui (Al Akhawayn University) -- Free to coerce: forced labor during and after the Vichy years in French West Africa / Catherine Bogosian Ash (Wayne State University) -- No country fit for heroes: the plight of disabled Kenyan veterans / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Part III. Mobilizing communities and resources for the war effort -- Women, rice and war: political and economic crisis in war-time Abeokuta (Nigeria) / Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University) -- Africa's 'battle for rubber' in the Second World War / William G. Clarence-Smith (SOAS) -- Freetown and World War II: strategic militarization, accommodation, and resistance / Allen M. Howard (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- Extraction and labor in Equatorial Africa and Cameroon under Free French Rule / Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto) -- The Portuguese African colonies during the second World War / Malyn Newitt (King's College London, Emeritus) -- World War II and the transformation of the Tanzanian forests / Thaddeus Sunseri (Colorado State University-Fort Collins) -- Part IV. Race, gender and social change in a time of war -- Wrestling with race on the eve of human rights: the British management of the color line in post-fascist Eritrea / Giulia Barrera (Italian Archives Directorate) -- To be treated as a man: wartime struggles over masculinity, race and honor in the Nigerian coal industry / Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- "A white man's war": settler masculinity in the union defense force, 1939-1945 / Suryakanthie Chetty (University of Johannesburg) -- African soldiers, French women and colonial fears during and after World War II / Ruth Ginio (Ben Gurion University-Negev) -- World War II and the sex trade in British West Africa / Carina Ray (Fordham University) -- Part V. Experiencing war in Africa and Europe -- American missions in wartime French West Africa: travails of the Sudan interior mission in Niger / Barbara M. Cooper (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- Fighting fascism: Ethiopian women patriots 1935-1941 / Hailu Habtu (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) and Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University) -- Defending the land of their ancestors: African American military experience in Africa during World War II / Daniel Hutchinson (Florida State University) -- French African soldiers in German POW camps, 1940-1945 / Raffael Scheck (Colby College) -- Part VI. World War II & anticolonialism -- Popular resistance and anticolonial mobilization: the war effort in French Guinea / Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola College In Maryland) -- Sudanese popular response to World War II / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University) -- Uganda politics and World War II (1939-1949)/ Carol Summers (University Of Richmond) -- Part VII. Conclusion -- Consequences of the war / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University).
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-63022-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-05320-X
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107282018
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