Botswana, 1939-1945

Botswana, 1939-1945
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0198207646
ISBN-13 : 9780198207641
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Botswana, 1939-1945 by : Ashley Jackson

This is the first full study of an African country during the Second World War. Unusually, it provides both an Africanist and an imperial perspective. Using extensive archival and oral evidence, Ashley Jackson explores the social, economic, political, agricultural, and military history ofBotswana. He examines Botswana's military contribution to the war effort and the impact of the war on the African home front. The book focuses on events and personalities `on the ground' in Africa and also on their interaction with and impact upon events and personalities in distant imperialcentres, such as Whitehall and the wartime British Army headquarters in the Middle East. The attitudes, aims, and actions of all levels of colonial society - British rulers, African chiefs, military officials, ordinary African men and women - are considered, producing a `total history' of an Africancountry at war.

African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80

African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80
Author :
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Total Pages : 332
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781580463805
ISBN-13 : 1580463800
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80 by : Timothy Joseph Stapleton

Recruiting and motivations for enlistment -- Perceptions of African security force members -- Education and upward mobility -- Camp life -- African women and the security forces -- Objections and reforms -- Travel and danger -- Demobilization and veterans.

Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945

Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 333
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317330974
ISBN-13 : 1317330978
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945 by : Eric Storm

During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, these were the first instances in which they met Asians or Africans, and the presence of Indian, Indo-Chinese, Moluccan, Senegalese, Moroccan or Algerian soldiers in Europe did not go unnoticed. This book explores this experience as it relates to the returning soldiers - who often had difficulties re-adapting to their subordinate status at home - and on European authorities who for the first time had to accommodate large numbers of foreigners in their own territories, which in some ways would help shape later immigration policies.

Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana

Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana
Author :
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 334
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0253111498
ISBN-13 : 9780253111494
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana by : Julie Livingston

In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana documents how transformations wrought by colonialism, independence, industrialization, and development have effected changes in bodily life and perceptions of health, illness, and debility. In this intimate and powerful book, Julie Livingston explores the lives of debilitated persons, their caregivers, the medical and social networks of caring, and methods that communities have adopted for promoting well-being. Livingston traces how Tswana medical thought and practice have become intertwined with Western bio-medical ideas and techniques. By focusing on experiences and meanings of illness and bodily misfortune, Livingston sheds light on the complexities of the current HIV/AIDS epidemic and places it in context with a long and complex history of impairment and debility. This book presents practical and thoughtful responses to physical misfortune and offers an understanding of the complex dynamic between social change and suffering.

Fighting for Britain

Fighting for Britain
Author :
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781847010476
ISBN-13 : 1847010474
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Fighting for Britain by : David Killingray

Based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of over half-a-million African troops who served with the British Army in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy, and Burma. Looks at the impact of army life and travel on the men and their families, and the role of ex-servicemen in post-war nationalist politics.

Guardians of Empire

Guardians of Empire
Author :
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 270
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781526121462
ISBN-13 : 1526121468
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Guardians of Empire by : David Killingray

For imperialists, the concept of guardian is specifically to the armed forces that kept watch on the frontiers and in the heartlands of imperial territories. Large parts of Asia and Africa, and the islands of the Pacific and the Caribbean were imperial possessions. This book discusses how military requirements and North Indian military culture, shaped the cantonments and considers the problems posed by venereal diseases and alcohol, and the sanitary strategies pursued to combat them. The trans-border Pathan tribes remained an insistent problem in Indian defence between 1849 and 1947. The book examines the process by which the Dutch elite recruited military allies, and the contribution of Indonesian soldiers to the actual fighting. The idea of naval guardianship as expressed in the campaign against the South Pacific labour trade is examined. The book reveals the extent of military influence of the Schutztruppen on the political developments in the German protectorates in German South-West Africa and German East Africa. The U.S. Army, charged with defending the Pacific possessions of the Philippines and Hawaii, encountered a predicament similar to that of the mythological Cerberus. The regimentation of military families linked access to women with reliable service, and enabled the King's African Rifles to inspire a high level of discipline in its African soldiers, askaris. The book explains the political and military pressures which drove successive French governments to widen the scope of French military operations in Algeria between 1954 and 1958. It also explores gender issues and African colonial armies.

Distant Drums

Distant Drums
Author :
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 377
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781837642045
ISBN-13 : 1837642044
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Distant Drums by : Ashley Jackson

Reveals how colonies were central to the defence of the British Empire and the command of the oceans that underpinned it. This title blends overviews of the nature of imperial defence with grass-roots explanations of how individual colonies were mobilised for war.

Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans

Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans
Author :
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Total Pages : 272
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789462704343
ISBN-13 : 9462704341
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans by : Raphael Chijioke Njoku

The road to Queen Elizabeth II’s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the throne. In this book, Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines Queen Elizabeth II’s role in the African decolonization trajectories and the postcolonial state’s quest for genuine political and economic liberation since 1947. By locating Elizabeth at the center of Anglophone Africa’s independence agitations, the account harnesses the African interests to tease out the monarch’s dilemma of complying with Whitehall’s decolonization schemes while building an inclusive and unified Commonwealth in which Africans could play a vital role. Njoku argues that to gratify British lawmakers in her complex and marginal place within the British parliamentary system of conservative versus reformist, Elizabeth’s contribution fell short of African nationalists’ expectations on account of her silence and inaction during the African decolonization raptures. Yet ultimately, the author concludes, she helped build an inclusive and unified organization in which Africans could assert and appropriate political and economic autarky.

The British Empire and the Second World War

The British Empire and the Second World War
Author :
Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 640
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780826440495
ISBN-13 : 0826440495
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The British Empire and the Second World War by : Ashley Jackson

In 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire that there had ever been. In the years since 1945 that empire has disappeared, and the crucial fact that the British Empire fought together as a whole during the war has been forgotten. All the parts of the empire joined the struggle and were involved in it from the beginning, undergoing huge changes and sometimes suffering great losses as a result. The war in the desert, the defence of Malta and the Malayan campaign, and the contribution of the empire as a whole in terms of supplies, communications and troops, all reflect the strategic importance of Britain's imperial status. Men and women not only from Australia, New Zealand and India but from many parts of Africa and the Middle East all played their part. Winston Churchill saw the war throughout in imperial terms. The British Empire and the Second World War emphasises a central fact about the Second World War that is often forgotten.

British Propaganda and Wars of Empire

British Propaganda and Wars of Empire
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317171553
ISBN-13 : 1317171551
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis British Propaganda and Wars of Empire by : Christopher Tuck

'Influence' is a slippery concept, yet one of tremendous relevance for those wishing to understand global politics. From debates on the changing sources of power in the international system, through to analyses of its value as an alternative to the active use of force as a policy instrument, influence has become a recurrent theme in discussions of international relations and foreign policy. In order to provide a better understanding of the multifaceted and shifting nature of influence, this volume looks at how the British government employed various forms of pressure and persuasion to achieve its goals across the twentieth century. By focusing on Britain - a global actor with great power objectives but declining physical means - the collection provides a wide range of case studies to assess how influence was brought to bear on a wide array of non-western cultures and societies. It furthermore allows for an assessment of just how effective - or ineffective - British efforts were at influencing non-Western targets over a hundred years of operations. By shedding important light on the efficacy of British efforts to sustain and advance its interests in the twentieth century, the volume will be of interest not only to historians, but to anyone interested in contemporary problems surrounding the operation of influence as a foreign policy tool.