The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and AsiaHeike Liebau The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their intersections. Drawing substantially on new sources such as oral accounts, propaganda material and artistic representations, the publication investigates the experiences of combatants and civilians on the frontline and in the rear of the front. It studies spontaneous and organized responses manifested in public debates, propaganda activities, and in individual and collective memories. Questioning conventional periodizations and discussing both wars together, the book analyses broader implications of the wars for African and Asian societies which resulted in significant social and political transformations. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part One War Experiences and Perceptions | 27 |
Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front | 29 |
Sepoy and Menial in the Great War 19161920 | 55 |
The Experience of Malawians in the Second World War | 107 |
Reverberations of Indian Wartime Experiences in German Prison Camps 19151919 | 131 |
Arab Victims of National Socialism | 167 |
Egypts Overlooked Contribution to World War II | 217 |
Radio and Society in Tunisia during World War II | 369 |
Part Three Social and Political Transformations | 399 |
Everyday Life in Kurd Dagh Northern Syria during the Allied Occupation in the Second World War | 401 |
Military Collaboration Conscription and Citizenship Rights in the Four Communes of Senegal and in French West Africa 19121946 | 429 |
Race Gender and Liberalism in the Union Defence Force 19391945 | 457 |
The Impact of the East Africa Campaign 19141918 on South Africa and Beyond | 483 |
The Military and the Mujahidin in Action | 499 |
Still Behind Enemy Lines? Algerian and Tunisian Veterans after the World Wars | 519 |
Part Two Representations and Responses | 249 |
Perceptions of World War I and the SocioReligious Movement among the Oraons in Chota Nagpur 19141916 | 251 |
Outofarea Deployment and the Swahili Military Press in World War II | 277 |
The First World War According to the Memories of Commoners in the Bilād alShām | 299 |
The Great War in the Memoirs and Poetry of the Iraqis | 313 |
Politics and Literature in the Indian Homefront | 341 |
Wartime Imaginings of Development and Social Policy c 19421946 | 547 |
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