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Africa and World War II
Title
Africa and World War II / edited by Judith Byfield, Cornell University, Carolyn A. Brown, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Timothy Parsons, Washington University in St. Louis, Ahmad Sikainga, Ohio State University.
ISBN
9781107053205 (hardback)
110705320X (hardback)
9781107630222 (paperback)
1107630223 (paperback)
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
xxiii, 540 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Variant and related titles
Africa and World War two
Africa and World War 2
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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)
Free France, unfree Africa: extraction and labor in French Equatorial Africa under free French rule / Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto)
The Portuguese African colonies and World War II / Malyn Newitt (King's College London, Emeritus)
Pitsawyers, rubber tappers, and forest farmers: 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: British management of the color line in post-fascist Eritrea / Giulia Barrera (Italian Archives Directorate)
To be treated as a man: masculinity, race and the imperial state 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 / 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 & anti-colonialism
Resistance & mobilization: Guinea and World War II / Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola College In Maryland)
Sudanese response to World War II / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University)
Uganda after World War II / Carol Summers (University Of Richmond)
Part VII. Conclusion
Consequences of the war / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University).
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