Mobilizing the masses
Subtitle: gender, ethnicity, and class in the nationalist movement in Guinea, 1939-1958
By: Elizabeth Schmidt.
Series: Social history of Africa,
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Nationalism -- Guinea -- History -- 20th century.; Sex role -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- History -- 20th century.; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- History -- 20th century.; Social classes -- Guinea -- History -- 20th century.; Guinea -- Politics and government -- To 1958.; Guinea -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: History, culture, and war : the roots of Guinean nationalism, 1939-1947; title: Liberté, egalité, fraternité : military veterans and the postwar nationalist movement, 1940-1955; title: The universal worker : organized labor and nationalist mobilization, 1946-1953; title: Rural revolt : popular resistance to the colonial chieftaincy, 1946-1956; title: Women take the lead : female emancipation and the nationalist movement, 1949-1954; title: Ethnicity, class, and violence : internal dissent in the RDA, 1955-1956; title: Independence now : the resurgence of the Left and the move toward independence, 1956-1958.