商品簡介
Between 1914 and 1918, the French army recruited some 140,000 West Africans who served as combatants on the Western Front. Focusing on Senegal, Lunn (history, University of Michigan-Dearborn) assesses the range of the war's impact on West Africans. He draws on testimony of 85 African witnesses and veterans of WWI to offer novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the conduct of colonial recruitment drives, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered soldiers' attitudes about themselves, their societies, and the French. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
JOE LUNN is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His publications include articles in Africa and the First World War and the Journal of Contemporary History. He is presently working on a second book entitled African Voices from the Great War: An Anthology of Senegalese Soldiers' Life Histories, which will further explore the First World War's impact on the lives of the Senegalese.
