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1 online resource (350 pages) |
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Cover; RACE, EMPIRE AND FIRST WORLD WAR WRITING; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; EMPIRE, RACE, COLOUR; VOICES AND EXPERIENCES; PERCEPTIONS AND PROXIMITIES; MEMORY, NATIONALISM AND LITERATURE; NOTES; PART I: Voices and experiences; CHAPTER 1 'An army of workers': Chinese indentured labour in First World War France; CHINESE SUPPORT FOR THE RECRUITMENT; ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE CHINESE WORKERS; CHINESE WORKERS' VOICES; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 2 Sacrifices, sex, race: Vietnamese experiences in the First World War. |
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GOING AWAY: RECRUITMENT, VOLUNTEERING AND THE VOYAGE TO FRANCESACRIFICE AND DISCONTENT; MONEY, LOVE AND SEX; RACE AND CONFLICT; POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS; NOTES; CHAPTER 3 Indians at home, Mesopotamia and France, 1914-1918: towards an intimate history; THE HOME FRONT: PRESTIGE, NATIONALISM, LAMENT; HONOUR AND SLUR: THE WAR DIARIES OF THAKUR AMAR SINGH; MEMORIES OF MESOPOTAMIA: CAPTAIN DR KALYAN MUKHERJI AND SISIR SARBADHIKARI; SEPOY LETTERS: PALIMPSESTS, IZZAT AND TRANSCULTURAL IDENTITIES; NOTES; CHAPTER 4 'We don't want to die for nothing': askari at war in German East Africa, 1914-1918. |
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'SAFARI YA BWANA LETTOW': THE STRESSES OF WARRESPECTABILITY ON THE MARCH: MOBILE COMMUNITIES AT WAR; DESERTION: A RESPONSE TO BROKEN CONTRACTS; NOTES; CHAPTER 5 France's legacy to Demba Mboup? A Senegalese griot and his descendants remember his military service during the First World War; MBOUP'S LIFE HISTORY; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; PART II: Perceptions and proximities; CHAPTER 6 Representing Otherness: African, Indian and European soldiers' letters and memoirs; GERMAN SOLDIERS' VIEW OF COLONIAL TROOPS; ALLIED SOLDIERS' VIEW OF COLONIAL TROOPS; COLONIAL NON-WHITE SOLDIERS' VIEW OF EUROPE; NOTES. |
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CHAPTER 7 Living apart together: Belgian civilians and non-white troops and workers in wartime FlandersWARTIME WRITINGS OF JANE DE LAUNOY AND MAURICE DUWEZ; ACCOUNTS OF THE LOCAL CLERGY: THE DIARIES OF FATHER VAN WALLEGHEM; CHANGING POST-WAR ATTITUDES, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS THE CHINESE LABOUR CORPS; NOTES; CHAPTER 8 Nursing the Other: the representation of colonial troops in French and British First World War nursing memoirs; WHITE NURSES AND COLONIAL SOLDIERS: CONTEXTS AND CONTROVERSIES; NURSE MEMOIRS; NOTES. |
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CHAPTER 9 Imperial captivities: colonial prisoners of war in Germany and the Ottoman empire, 1914-1918DIFFERENT CONTEXTS: GERMANY AND OTTOMAN TURKEY; 'RACIALISING' THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE COLONIAL PRISONER; FEAR OF THE NON-WHITE COLONIAL SOLDIER IN GERMANY; THE NON-WHITE SOLDIER AS CAPTOR AND FELLOW PRISONER: THE OTTOMAN CASE; NOTES; CHAPTER 10 Images of Te Hokowhitu A Tu in the First World War; SELLING NEW ZEALAND TO THE WORLD; VOLUNTEERING FOR A WHITE MAN'S WAR; IN EGYPT AND GALLIPOLI; MAORI IN THE UK AND FRANCE; NOTES; PART III: Nationalism, memory and literature. |
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CHAPTER 11 'He was black, he was a White man, and a dinkum Aussie': race and empire in revisiting the Anzac legend. |
| Summary |
Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War (1914-1918) |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Imperialism.
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Imperialism. |
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Indigenous peoples.
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Indigenous peoples. |
| Chronological Term |
1914-1918 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Das, Santanu. Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9780521509848 |
| ISBN |
9781107781146 |
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1107781140 |
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9781107784345 (electronic book) |
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1107784344 (electronic book) |
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9780511973659 (electronic book) |
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0511973659 (electronic book) |
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9780521509848 |
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052150984X |
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