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Memoirs of the maelstrom : a Senegalese oral history of the First World War
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- Creator
- Joe Lunn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford : James Currey ; Cape Town : David Philip, [1999]
- ©1999
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780325001395, 0325001391, 9780325001388, 0325001383, 9780852556887, 0852556888, 9780852556382, 0852556381
- OCLC
- ocm41173828
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-256) and index.
- 1. The Vision of the Vanquished: Memories of the Prewar Colonial Order -- 2. The Tax in Blood: Military Recruitment in Rural Senegal, 1914-1917 -- 3. The War to Obtain Rights: Conscription in the Communes and the Diagne Mission of 1918 -- 4. "The Long Journey": From Kayor to the Cote d'Azur -- 5. "To Meet Death Far Away": The Senegalese in the Trenches -- 6. "Bons Soldats" and "Sales Negres": Senegalese Contacts with the French -- 7. Beneath the Roots of the Baobab: The Repatriation of the Soldiers and the Postwar Colonial Order in Senegal -- Conclusion: The Legacy of the First World War in Senegal -- Postscript: Discordant Voices: The Veterans Speak
Subjects
- France. Armée. Tirailleurs sénégalais -- History.
- France. Armée -- Colonial forces -- History -- 19th century.
- France. Armée -- Colonial forces -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Senegal.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Senegalese.
- Oral history.
- Africa, French-speaking West -- Race relations.
- Africa, French-speaking West -- History, Military.