Defending whose country? : Indigenous soldiers in the Pacific war /

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"In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, the armed forces of the United States, Australia, and the Australian colonies of Papua and New Guinea made use of Indigenous peoples in new capacities. The United States had long used American Indians as soldiers and sco...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riseman, Noah J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
Temas:
1939 - 1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Indian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Aboriginal Australian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Australian.
Navajo code talkers.
Yolngu (Australian people) > Warfare.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Cryptographie.
Murngin (Peuple d'Australie) > Guerre.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Armed Forces > Aboriginal Australians
Armed Forces > Indian troops
Cryptography
Military participation > Indian
Navajo code talkers
Australia > Armed Forces > Aboriginal Australians.
United States > Armed Forces > Indians.
États-Unis > Forces armées > Peuples autochtones.
Australia
United States
dissertations.
Personal narratives
Personal narratives > Australian
Personal narratives.
Academic theses.
Récits personnels.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reading Colonialism and Indigenous Involvement in the Second World War; 1. An Exception in the Equation? Donald Thomson and the NTSRU; 2. Allies at War: De Facto Yolngu Soldiers; 3. Black Skins, Black Work: Papuan and New Guinean Labor; 4. Guerillas for the White Men: Formal Papuan andNew Guinean Fighters; 5. The Navajo Code Talkers: Warriors for the Settler Nation; 6. When the War Was Over: Forgetting and (Re)membering the Code Talkers; Conclusion: The Soldier-Warrior in Modern War.
  • Source AcknowledgmentsNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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