Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914-1918

ISBN-13: 9781138082106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 328 str.

Santanu Das; Anna Maguire; Daniel Steinbach

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This volume examines colonial encounters during the First World War. Through case studies from across the globe, the twelve chapters explore the spaces and processes of encounter to explore how the conjoined realities of war, race and empire were experienced, recorded and instrumentalized.

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Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict: An Introduction  Part 1: Spaces: Camp, City, Colony  1. "A Pageant of Empire"?: Untangling Colonial Encounters in Military Camps  2. Urban Spaces of Cultural Encounters: The Greek City of Salonica in the First World War  3. The British Military Occupation of Jerusalem, 1917–1920: Soldiers as Tourists and Pilgrims  4. Between Intimacy and Violence: Imperial Encounters in East Africa During the First World War  Part 2: Process: Experience, Commonalities and Politicisation  5. Precarious Encounters: South Asia, the War and Anti-Colonial Cosmopolitanism  6. Songs of War and Dissent: Maori Anti-War Activism and Its Cultural Legacy  7. Blues in the Trenches: John Jacob Niles’ Singing Soldiers  8. The YMCA and West Indian Pan-African Encounters During the First World War: The Drury Lane Club for "Coloured Sailors and Soldiers"  Part 3: Instrumentality: Propaganda, Resistance and the Post-War World  9. African American Soldiers in a Black World: The Politics of Cultural Interaction  10. Influencing the Muslim World: The British Propaganda Newspaper Al-Haqīqah  11. "Neutral Colonials" and the Global War: The Role of the Neutral Dutch East Indies and Indonesian Intellectuals in the German "Programme for Revolution"  12. Germany’s Global East: Worldmaking in The New Orient