Minorities and the First World War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minorities and the First World War write by Hannah Ewence. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Minorities and the First World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the particular experience of ethnic, religious and national minorities who participated in the First World War as members of the main belligerent powers: Britain, France, Germany and Russia. Individual chapters explore themes including contested loyalties, internment, refugees, racial violence, genocide and disputed memories from 1914 through into the interwar years to explore how minorities made the transition from war to peace at the end of the First World War. The first section discusses so-called ‘friendly minorities’, considering the way in which Jews, Muslims and refugees lived through the war and its aftermath. Section two looks at fears of ‘enemy aliens’, which prompted not only widespread internment, but also violence and genocide. The third section considers how the wartime experience of minorities played out in interwar Europe, exploring debates over political representation and remembrance. Bridging the gap between war and peace, this is the ideal book for all those interested in both First World War and minority histories.
Race, Empire and First World War Writing
Race, Empire and First World War Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race, Empire and First World War Writing write by Santanu Das. This book was released on 2011-04-28. Race, Empire and First World War Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.
They Left Great Marks on Me
They Left Great Marks on Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook They Left Great Marks on Me write by Kidada E. Williams. This book was released on 2012-03-12. They Left Great Marks on Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering this violence engendered was at once too painful to put into words yet too horrible to suppress. Despite the trauma it could incur, many African Americans opted to publicize their experiences by testifying about the violence they endured and witnessed." "In this evocative and deeply moving history, Kidada Williams examines African Americans' testimonies about racial violence. By using both oral and print culture to testify about violence, victims and witnesses hoped they would be able to graphically disseminate enough knowledge about its occurrence that federal officials and the American people would be inspired bear witness to thier suffering and support their demands for justice. In the process of testifying, these people created a vernacular history of the violence they endured and witnessed, as well as the identities that grew from the experience of violence. This history fostered an oppositional consciousness to racial violence that inspired African Americans to form and support campaigns to end violence. The resulting crusades against racial violence became one of the political training grounds for the civil rights movement." -- Book Cover.
The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe
The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe write by . This book was released on 2020-11-04. The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributions in this volume, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives.
Half American
Half American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Half American write by Matthew F. Delmont. This book was released on 2024-01-09. Half American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, by award-winning historian and civil rights expert Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 A 2022 Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and more More than one million Black soldiers served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units while waging a dual battle against inequality in the very country for which they were laying down their lives. The stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the “Good War” fought by the “Greatest Generation.” And yet without their sacrifices, the United States could not have won the war. Half American is World War II history as you’ve likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black military heroes and civil rights icons such as Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the leader of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, who fought to open the Air Force to Black pilots; Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans; poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the Black press; Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for Black soldiers, veterans, and their families; and James G. Thompson, the twenty-six-year-old whose letter to a newspaper laying bare the hypocrisy of fighting against fascism abroad when racism still reigned at home set in motion the Double Victory campaign. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing. An essential and meticulously researched retelling of the war, Half American honors the men and women who dared to fight not just for democracy abroad but for their dreams of a freer and more equal America.
