Black Shame - African Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1922

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.>

List of contents

Introduction
1. From Barbarian to Soldier
2. Recruiting, Deployment and Controversy 1914-1917
3. Mass Recruitment 1918
4. At and behind the Front
5. The Way Home
6. Black Atlantic
7. The 'Black Shame': Africans in the Rhineland
8. Germany: Humiliation and Outrage
9. The World Beyond Germany: Amazement and Outrage
10. Conclusion

About the author

Dick van Galen Last with Ralf Futselaar

Product details

• Authors: Dick Van Galen Last, Dick van, Dick van Galen Last, Dick (was Librarian and Senior Researcher at the NIOD Institute for War van Galen Last
• Assisted by: Ralf Futselaar (Editor), Ralf (NIOD Institute for War Futselaar (Editor), Marjolijn de Jager (Translation), Marjolijn de Jager (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9781350002036
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00203-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, Africa, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I