The world in world wars
Subtitle: experiences, perceptions and perspectives from Africa and Asia
By: edited by Heike Liebau ... [et al.].
Series: Studies in global social history -- v. 5
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 613
ISBN-13: 9789004185456
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-602) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Indian soldiers' experiences in France during World War I : seeing Europe from the rear of the front / Claude Markovits; title: Front lines and status lines : Sepoy and 'menial' in the Great War, 1916-1920 / Radhika Singha; title: Military service, nationalism and race : the experience of Malawians in the Second World War / Timothy J. Lovering; title: The corrosiveness of comparison : reverberations of Indian wartime experiences in German prison camps (1915-1919) / Ravi Ahuja; title: The suppressed discourse : Arab victims of national socialism / Gerhard Hopp (with a prologue and an epilogue by Peter Wien); title: Egypt's overlooked contribution to World War II / Emad Ahmed Helal; title: 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; title: Correcting their perspective : out-of-area deployment and the Swahili military press in World War II / Katrin Bromber; title: The First World War according to the memories of 'commoners' in the Bilad al-Sham / Abdallah Hanna; title: Ambiguities of the modern : the Great War in the memoirs and poetry of the Iraqis / Dina Rizk Khoury.; title: Ardour and anxiety : politics and literature in the Indian homefront / Santanu Das; title: Radio and society in Tunisia during World War II / Morgan Corriou; title: Peripheral experiences : everyday life in Kurd Dagh (northern Syria) during the Allied occupation in the Second World War / Katharina Lange; title: Military collaboration, conscription and citizenship rights in the four communes of Senegal and in French West Africa (1912-1946) / Francesca Bruschi; title: "Our victory was our defeat" : race, gender and liberalism in the Union Defence Force, 1939-1945 / Suryakanthie Chetty; title: The impact of the East Africa campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond / Anne Samson; title: From the Great War to the Syrian armed resistance movement (1919-1921) : the military and the mujahidin in action / Nadine Meouchy; title: Still behind enemy lines? : Algerian and Tunisian veterans after the world wars / Thomas DeGeorges; title: The creativity of destruction : wartime imaginings of development and social policy, c. 1942-1946 / Benjamin Zachariah.