Memoirs of the maelstrom : a Senegalese oral history of the First World War / Joe Lunn
Type : LivreGenre : Auteur: LUNN, JoeEditeur : Portsmouth : Heinemann • Oxford : James Currey • Cape Town : David Philip , 1999Collection : Social History of AfricaDescription matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv-264 p.) : ill. en noir et blanc, couv. ill. ; 24 cmISBN : 0852556381.Résumé : Résumé : "Between 1914 and 1918, the French army recruited over 140,000 West Africans who served as combatants on the Western Front. Wartime recruitment had profound implications for African as well as French society. Focusing on Senegal, Lunn provides a unique perspective for assessing the range of the war's impact on West Africans. Based on the testimony of 85 African witnesses or veterans of the First World War and extensive archival research, Lunn's book offers novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered many African soldiers' previous attitudes about themselves, their societies, and the French. This work also is a significant contribution to the study of the changing character of Franco-African relations during the colonial era, using the crucial watershed of the First World War as a frame of reference." -présentation éditeurNote sur les bibliographies et les index présents dans le document : Sources et bibliogr. pp. 241-256, index pp. 257-264, notes, tableaux.Public : Tout publicSujet - Nom commun:Première Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) | XXe siècle | histoire | soldat | tirailleur | colonisation | témoignage | histoire orale | sénégalais -- population Sujet - Nom géographique:Sénégal -- Pays | Afrique -- continent Dewey : 325.31Plan de classement : :1 Introduction à l’histoire de l’immigration | 1A Histoire de l’immigration| Type de document | Site actuel | Cote | Statut | Date de retour prévue | Réservations |
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Sources et bibliogr. pp. 241-256, index pp. 257-264, notes, tableaux
Résumé "Between 1914 and 1918, the French army recruited over 140,000 West Africans who served as combatants on the Western Front. Wartime recruitment had profound implications for African as well as French society. Focusing on Senegal, Lunn provides a unique perspective for assessing the range of the war's impact on West Africans. Based on the testimony of 85 African witnesses or veterans of the First World War and extensive archival research, Lunn's book offers novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered many African soldiers' previous attitudes about themselves, their societies, and the French. This work also is a significant contribution to the study of the changing character of Franco-African relations during the colonial era, using the crucial watershed of the First World War as a frame of reference." -présentation éditeur
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