Native Sons - West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Gregory Mann is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. Klappentext "In his lucid new study of Malian veterans of the French colonial army, Gregory Mann raises provocative new themes for writing conjoined local, colonial, and postcolonial histories. He has elegantly captured the dense web of human relations, discourses of obligation, and reconfigured social ties that link the dusty town of San (Mali) to the many other outposts of the republican imperial state as well as the postcolonial capitals of Paris and Bamako."--Alice L. Conklin, author of "A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930" Zusammenfassung For much of the twentieth century! France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military! sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe! Southeast Asia! and North Africa. This book deals with this topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Soldier Families and Slavery’s Echoes 29 2. Ex-Soldiers as Unruly Clients, 1914–40 63 3. Veterans and the Political Wars of 1940–60 108 4. A Military Culture on the Move: Tirailleurs Senegalais in France, Africa, and Asia 146 5. Blood Debt, Immigrants, and Arguments 183 Conclusion 210 Appendix: Interviews 217 Abbreviations 221 Notes 225 References 295 Index 321

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Mann
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2006
• EAN: 9780822337683
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3768-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology