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Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War
Glenford Howe
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Description for Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
World War One, `The Great War’, had major social, economic, psychological and political implications for colonial peoples. Throughout the colonial world, people were called upon and many eagerly volunteered to defend the very nations and institutions which kept them in subjugation and robbed them of their identities. Glenford Howe presents the incredible and ironically triumphant story of the West Indian soldiers in World War One – a story which had previously remained largely untold through the intentional design of the early British colonial historians and by efforts to belittle the contribution of West Indians as that of misguided patriots lacking ... Read more
World War One, `The Great War’, had major social, economic, psychological and political implications for colonial peoples. Throughout the colonial world, people were called upon and many eagerly volunteered to defend the very nations and institutions which kept them in subjugation and robbed them of their identities. Glenford Howe presents the incredible and ironically triumphant story of the West Indian soldiers in World War One – a story which had previously remained largely untold through the intentional design of the early British colonial historians and by efforts to belittle the contribution of West Indians as that of misguided patriots lacking ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica Jamaica
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Kingston, Jamaica
ISBN
9789766370633
SKU
V9789766370633
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