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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 355.3590944 EAN: 9780435080525 ISBN: 0435080520 Label: Heinemann Manufacturer: Heinemann Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 236 Publication Date: November 07, 1990 Publisher: Heinemann Studio: Heinemann Editorial Review: Product Description: In Colonial Conscripts, Myron Echenberg traces the social history of a large and diverse group of West Africans who served in Senegalese regiments of the French colonial army. Examining both how the soldiers and veterans lived out their lives in service and how the military institution functioned, Dr Echenberg also reviews the African military within a framework bounded by such issues as labor, migration, and demography. The main focus is on how rank-and-file African soldiers, officers, and veterans responded to their ambiguous and often contradictory position within the colonial social formation. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Human Cost of ImperialismWhen one usually thinks about imperialism, the common image is of imperial powers taking natural resources from colonized peoples for the benefit of the metropolitan power. In his book Colonial Conscripts, Myron Echenberg delves into the even more insidious practice of conscirpting a nation's young men for the colonizers' army. The Tirailleur Senegalais fought and died for France during two World Wars and numerous colonial adventures. Unlike the British and other colonial powers, France ... Read More Rating:  - The New Military History As African Social History {****1/2}"New Military History" refers to scholarship which explores soldiers' lives away from the battlefield, and the broader impact of warfare on society. This prizewinning study is a concise but thoroughly-researched look at the military experience in 19th and 20th-century West Africa, largely based on archival materials but making effective use of key oral interviews. France's empire was the most militarized in all Africa, with universal male conscription during much of the 20th century. By withdrawing labor ... Read More |
