Memoirs of the maelstrom : a Senegalese oral history of the First World War
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Memoirs of the maelstrom : a Senegalese oral history of the First World War
（Social history of Africa）
Heinemann , James Currey , David Philip, 1999
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- : James Currey : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: James Currey : pbk ISBN 9780852556382
Description
Experiences of West African soldiers who fought alongside the French in the First World War.
Between 1914 and 1918, the French recruited over 140,000 West Africans who fought on the Western front. Based on personal testimonies of war veterans and archival research, this book describes how the experience altered African soldiers' views of themselves, their societies, and the French.
North America: Heinemann
Table of Contents
- The visions of the vanquished - memories of the prewar colonial order
- the tax in the blood - military recruitment in rural Senegal, 1914-17
- the war to obtain rights - conscription in the communes & the Diagne mission of 1918
- "the long journey" - from Kayor to the Cote d'Azur
- to meet death far away - the Senegalese in the trenches
- "Bons soldats" & "sales negres" - Senegalese contacts with the French
- beneath the roots of the baobab - the repatriation of the soldiers & the postwar colonial order in Senegal
- conclusion - the legacy of the First World War in Senegal
- postscript - discordant voices - the veterans speak.
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: James Currey : hbk ISBN 9780852556887
Description
Between 1914 and 1918, the French recruited over 140,000 West Africans who fought on the Western front. Based on personal testimonies of war veterans and archival research, this book describes how the experience altered African soldiers' views of themselves, their societies, and the French.
Table of Contents
- The visions of the vanquished - memories of the prewar colonial order
- the tax in the blood - military recruitment in rural Senegal, 1914-17
- the war to obtain rights - conscription in the communes & the Diagne mission of 1918
- "the long journey" - from Kayor to the Cote d'Azur
- to meet death far away - the Senegalese in the trenches
- "Bons soldats" & "sales negres" - Senegalese contacts with the French
- beneath the roots of the baobab - the repatriation of the soldiers & the postwar colonial order in Senegal
- conclusion - the legacy of the First World War in Senegal
- postscript - discordant voices - the veterans speak.
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