The world in world wars : experiences, perceptions and perspectives from Africa and Asia /

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Imprint:Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, c2010.
Description:vii, 613 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in global social history ; v. 5
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Studies in global social history ; v. 5.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9354164
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Other authors / contributors:Liebau, Heike.
ISBN:9789004185456 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004185453 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004188471 (electronic book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-602) and indexes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Indian soldiers' experiences in France during World War I : seeing Europe from the rear of the front / Claude Markovits
  • Front lines and status lines : Sepoy and 'menial' in the Great War, 1916-1920 / Radhika Singha
  • Military service, nationalism and race : the experience of Malawians in the Second World War / Timothy J. Lovering
  • The corrosiveness of comparison : reverberations of Indian wartime experiences in German prison camps (1915-1919) / Ravi Ahuja
  • The suppressed discourse : Arab victims of national socialism / Gerhard Hopp (with a prologue and an epilogue by Peter Wien)
  • Egypt's overlooked contribution to World War II / Emad Ahmed Helal
  • Kaiser ki jay (long live the Kaiser) : perceptions of World War I and the socio-religious movement among the Oraons in Chota Nagpur, 1914-1916 / Heike Liebau
  • Correcting their perspective : out-of-area deployment and the Swahili military press in World War II / Katrin Bromber
  • The First World War according to the memories of 'commoners' in the Bilad al-Sham / Abdallah Hanna
  • Ambiguities of the modern : the Great War in the memoirs and poetry of the Iraqis / Dina Rizk Khoury.
  • Ardour and anxiety : politics and literature in the Indian homefront / Santanu Das
  • Radio and society in Tunisia during World War II / Morgan Corriou
  • Peripheral experiences : everyday life in Kurd Dagh (northern Syria) during the Allied occupation in the Second World War / Katharina Lange
  • Military collaboration, conscription and citizenship rights in the four communes of Senegal and in French West Africa (1912-1946) / Francesca Bruschi
  • "Our victory was our defeat" : race, gender and liberalism in the Union Defence Force, 1939-1945 / Suryakanthie Chetty
  • The impact of the East Africa campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond / Anne Samson
  • From the Great War to the Syrian armed resistance movement (1919-1921) : the military and the mujahidin in action / Nadine Meouchy
  • Still behind enemy lines? : Algerian and Tunisian veterans after the world wars / Thomas DeGeorges
  • The creativity of destruction : wartime imaginings of development and social policy, c. 1942-1946 / Benjamin Zachariah.