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Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 book cover

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Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918

Edited By Santanu Das, Anna Maguire, Daniel Steinbach Copyright 2022
338 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume gathers an international cast of scholars to examine the unprecedented range of colonial encounters during the First World War. More than four million men of color, and an even greater number of white Europeans and Americans, crisscrossed the globe. Others, in occupied areas, behind the warzone or in neutral countries, were nonetheless swept into the maelstrom. From local encounters... Read more

Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict: An Introduction

Santanu Das, Anna Maguire, and Daniel Steinbach

Part 1: Spaces: Camp, City, Colony

1. "A Pageant of Empire"?: Untangling Colonial Encounters in Military Camps

Anna Maguire

2. Urban Spaces of Cultural Encounters: The Greek City of Salonica in the First World War

Nicole Immig

3. The British Military Occupation of Jerusalem, 1917–1920: Soldiers as Tourists and Pilgrims

Mahon Murphy

4. Between Intimacy and Violence: Imperial Encounters in East Africa During the First World War

Daniel Steinbach

Part 2: Process: Experience, Commonalities and Politicisation

5. Precarious Encounters: South Asia, the War and Anti-Colonial Cosmopolitanism

Santanu Das

6. Songs of War and Dissent: Maori Anti-War Activism and Its Cultural Legacy

Rachel Gillett

7. Blues in the Trenches: John Jacob Niles’ Singing Soldiers

Michael Hammond

8. The YMCA and West Indian Pan-African Encounters During the First World War: The Drury Lane Club for "Coloured Sailors and Soldiers"

Richard Smith

Part 3: Instrumentality: Propaganda, Resistance and the Post-War World

9. African American Soldiers in a Black World: The Politics of Cultural Interaction

Jennifer Keene

10. Influencing the Muslim World: The British Propaganda Newspaper Al-Haqīqah

Sadia McEvoy

11. "Neutral Colonials" and the Global War: The Role of the Neutral Dutch East Indies and Indonesian Intellectuals in the German "Programme for Revolution"

Tessa Lobbes

12. Germany’s Global East: Worldmaking in The New Orient

Jennifer Jenkins

Biography

Santanu Das is Professor of English and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Anna Maguire is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

Daniel Steinbach is a historian of European colonial history and teaches at the University of Copenhagen.

"This remarkable feat of scholarship reveals rich and important unknown histories of the First World War that will fundamentally enhance our understanding of the conflict and its imperial nature. At its heart, this book uncovers the significance of the myriad, often life-changing, diverse human encounters that the war generated and their historical legacy in contributing to global change. It is an outstanding achievement and essential reading."

Heather Jones, University College London, UK

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