Race and War in France

Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0766-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: War/Society/Culture

Winner, 2009 Best First Book Prize, Phi Alpha Theta

During the First World War, the French army deployed more than 500,000 colonial subjects to European battlefields. The struggle against a common enemy associated these soldiers with the French nation, but racial and cultural differences left them on the outside. This study investigates French conceptions of race and national identity at the time as reflected in the attitudes and policies directed toward these soldiers.

How far did French egalitarianism extend in welcoming and disciplining nonwhite troops? Using the experiences of African and Asian colonial soldiers, Richard S. Fogarty examines how tensions between racial prejudices and strong traditions of republican universalism and egalitarianism resulted in often contradictory and paradoxical policies. Employing a socially and culturally integrated approach to the history of warfare that connects military and political policies with the society and culture in which they developed, Fogarty presents a fresh picture of how the French came to deal with race relations, religious differences, and French identity itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fogarty, Richard S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
1. Reservoirs of Men
2. Race and the Deployment of Troupes indigènes
3. Hierarchies of Rank, Hierarchies of Race
4. Race and Language in the French Army
5. Islam in the French Army
6. Race, Sex, and Imperial Anxieties
7. Between Subjects and Citizens
Conclusion
Appendix: Ranks in the French Army, with Approximate U.S. Army Equivalents
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fogarty, Richard S
Richard S. Fogarty is an associate professor of history at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Richard S. Fogarty is an associate professor of history at the University at Albany, State University of New York.