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Africa and the First World War : remembrance, memories and representations after 100 years /

The First World War was a widespread conflagration in world history, which, despite its European origins, had enormous effects throughout the world. Fettered to European politics and diplomacy through colonialism, Africa could not claim a position of neutrality, meaning that it mobilised human and n...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Botchway, De-Valera N. Y. M. (De-Valera Nana Yaw Mpere) (Editor ), Kwarteng, K. Osei (Kwame Osei) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction / De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway
  • Section I: Recruitment, Battlefronts and African Responses : Chapter One. The Role of the Gold Coast Regiment towards the Defeat of the Germans in Africa during World War I / Colonel J. Hagan
  • Chapter Two. Nigerian Soldiers in the East African Campaign of the First World War: 1916-1917 / Ibiang O. Ewa
  • Chapter Three. World War I: The Role of the Gold Coast and Aante towards the British Victory / Kwame O. Kwarteng
  • Chapter Four. Bewilderment, Speculations and Benefaction: Africans' Interpretation of World War One in the Literature of the Sudan United Mission British Branch / Jordan S. Rengshwat
  • Section II: Wartime Colonial Economic Policies : Chapter Five. African Mobilization of Agricultural Resources in British West Africa during the First World War / Adebayo A. Lawal
  • Chapter Six. Impact of the First World War on Labour Recruitment in the North of the Gold Coast (Ghana) / Marciana M. Kuusaana
  • Chapter Seven. The Impact of the First World War on Africa's Transportation Systems: The Nigerian Railways as a Case Study / Tokunbo A. Ayoola
  • Section III: Wartime, Society and Mobility : Chapter Eight: Detention and Deportation: A Study of the "De-Germanization" of Togoland and the Gold Coast during World War I, 1914-1918 / Augustine D. Osei
  • Chapter Nine. Chieftaincy and Indirect Rule: The Nature, Politics, and Exploits of Chiefs during the First World War in West Africa (1914-1930) / Samuel Bewiadzi and Mararet Ismaila
  • Chapter Ten. The Influenza Pandemic in the Gold Coast and Asante, 1918-1919 / Kwame O. Kwarteng and Stephen Osei-Owusu
  • Section IV: Memory, Remembrance and Representations : Chapter Eleven. Italy's "Parallel War" in Libya: A Forgotten Front of World War I (1914-1922) / Stefano Marcuzzi
  • Chapter Twelve. Historical Connections: Appreciating the Impact of the African Past on its Present and Future through the "3 Cs" of the First World War / Adjei Adjepong
  • Chapter Thirteen. Cinema, World War I and the New Nations of Africa: The Case of Ghana / Vitus Nanbigne.