War Veterans and the World After 1945: Cold War Politics, Decolonization, Memory

ISBN-13: 9780367591670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Ángel Alcalde; Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Opis

As a consequence of World War II, there were more than 100 million war veterans living in different regions of the world in 1945 while in subsequent decades, the number of people with war experience further increased with new armed conflicts in Asia and Africa. However, veterans have been largely neglected in global historical accounts of the po

Spis treści

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction (Ángel Alcalde and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas) Part One: The Cold War 2. The making and unmaking of the international anti-fascist resistance fighter (Václav Šmidrkal) 3. The World Veterans Federation: Cold War politics and globalization (Ángel Alcalde) 4. For Peace and Disarmament: Italian Disabled Ex-Servicemen and détente (Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre) Part Two: Race and Decolonization 5. South African Veterans and the Institutionalization of Apartheid in South Africa (Jonathan Fennell) 6. Enforcing Conformity: Race in the American Legion, 1940-1960 (Olivier Burtin) 7. "Warriors Again": Native American Vietnam Veterans in the Decolonization Movement, 1969-1973 (Matthias Voigt) 8. Poppies, pensions, passports: the British Legion and transnational civil society action in decolonizing Hong Kong (Daniel Schumacher) Part Three: Decolonization and Development 9. Colonial soldiers and postcolonial politics in Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Upper Volta, 1958-1973 (Riina Turtio) 10. Algerian veterans associations in the late colonial period in Algeria (1945-1962) (Samuel André-Berkovici) 11. Development, Mobilization, and War in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Case of the Trench Builders Association (1979-2013) (Eric Lob) 12. Veterans and land expropriation in Post-Independence Zimbabwe (Obert Bernard Mlambo) Part Four: Memory 13. Inconvenient heroes? War veterans from the Eastern front in Franco’s Spain (1942-1975) (Xosé M. Núñez Seixas) 14. Imagination and Authority in the Testimonies of French Veterans of the Algerian War of Decolonization (1954-1962) (Hugh McDonnell) 15. State Power, Cultural Exchange and the 'Forgotten War': British Veterans of the Korean War, 1953-2011 (Grace Huxford) 16. Retracing Memories of War: South African Military Veterans as Tourists in Angola (Gary Fred Baines). Index.

O autorze

Ángel Alcalde obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015. He was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich in 2016-2017. He has also been a visiting scholar at the European Institute at Columbia University (New York), the Leibniz-Institute for European History (Mainz), and the Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University. His latest book is War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the LMU of Munich (2012-1017). He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books on nationalist movements, national and regional identities, history of migration, and the cultural and social history of war in the twentieth century. His latest books are Die spanische Blaue Division an der Ostfront (1941-45) (Aschendorff, 2016) and (ed.) Metaphors of Spain (Berghahn, 2017).