West African soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960)
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書誌事項
West African soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960)
(Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora)
University of Rochester Press, 2022
- : hardback
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West African soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-375) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region.
West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army explores the complex and constantly changing experience of West African soldiers under British command in Nigeria, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia. Since cost and tropical disease limited the deployment of British metropolitan troops to the region, British colonial rule in West Africa depended heavily on locally recruited soldiers and their families. This force became Britain's largest colonial army in Sub-Saharan Africa.
West African Soldiers looks at the development of this colonial military from the conquest era of the late nineteenth century to decolonization in the 1950s. Rather than describing the many battles fought by this army both regionally and overseas, and informed by the concept of military culture, the book looks at the broad and overlapping themes of identity, culture, daily life, and violence. Chapter topics include the enslaved origins of the force, military identities including the myth of martial races, religious life, visual symbols like uniforms and insignia, health care related to tropical and sexually transmitted diseases, the experience of army wives, disciplinary flogging, mutiny, day-to-day violence committed by troops, and the employment of former soldiers by the colonial state. Based on archival research in five countries, the book derives inspiration from previous work on ordinary African soldiers in the British and German colonies of East Africa and in French West Africa.
目次
Summary
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Slave Origins
Chapter 2: Identities: Nigeria and Ghana
Chapter 3: Identities: Sierra Leone and the Gambia
Chapter 4: Religion
Chapter 5: Symbols
Chapter 6: Health
Chapter 7: Women
Chapter 8: Flogging
Chapter 9: Mutiny
Chapter 10: Murder and Mayhem
Chapter 11: Former Soldiers
Conclusion
Appendix: Mini-Biographies
Bibliography
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