A01=Dick van Galen Last
Author_Dick van Galen Last
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Product details
- ISBN 9781472531032
- Weight: 581g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Black Shame offers a detailed analysis of the recruitment and deployment of – and reactions to – African soldiers in the WWI European theatre of war. In so doing, the book paints a vivid picture of the wider debates of race and national identity provoked by the use of African troops within the main actors on the WWI scene: France, Britain, Germany and even the US. Drawing on war-time attitudes, Dick van Galen Last explores the reality and long-term consequences of the participation of African regiments in the post-war occupation of the German territories. Wide-ranging, both geographically and thematically, the first publication of its kind, Black Shame adds a fresh, truly comparative perspective to the scholarship in the fields of imperial and military history, as well as war studies and postcolonial studies, and will appeal to academics and postgraduate students alike.
Dick van Galen Last was, until his death in 2010, Librarian and Senior Researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ralf Futselaar is a Researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
