عنوان

Africa and World War II /

110705320X

1107630223

9781107053205

9781107630222

Africa and World War II /

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edited by Judith A. Byfield, Cornell University, Carolyn A. Brown, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Timothy Parsons, Washington University in St. Louis, Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, Ohio State University.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2015.

©2015

xxiii, 540 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction -- The military 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 A. 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 wartime 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 A. 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 lands of their ancestors: the 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 Alawad Sikainga (Ohio State University) -- Ugandan politics and World War II (1939-1949) / Carol Summers (University Of Richmond) -- Part VII. Conclusion -- Consequences of the war / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga (Ohio State University).

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