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On the Edges of Whiteness : Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War /
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain's African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, comp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. How the Poles Came to Africa
- Chapter 2. The Postwar Refugee Regime and the Imperial Order of Things
- Chapter 3. Comparing Colonialisms in Africa and Poland
- Chapter 4. 'An Incredible Pool of Femininity': Gendering the Refugees
- Chapter 5. Polish Refugees as Part of Colonial Society
- Conclusion. On the Edges of Whiteness
- Bibliography
- Index