Verwandte Artikel zu No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment...

No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War - Hardcover

 
9780889204980: No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War

Inhaltsangabe

No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War is the first history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Recruited from the migrant labour network, most African soldiers in the RNR were originally miners or farm workers from what are now Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and Malawi. Like others across the world, they joined the army for a variety of reason, chief among them a desire to escape low pay and horrible working conditions.

The RNR participated in some of the key engagements of the German East Africa campaign's later phase, subsisting on extremely meager rations and suffering from tropical diseases and exhaustion. Because they were commanded by a small group of European officers, most of whom were seconded from the Native Affairs Department and the British South Africa Police, the regiment was dominated by racism. It was not unusual for black soldiers, but never white ones, to be publicly flogged for alleged theft or insubordination. Although it remained in the field longer than all-white units and some of its members received some of Britain's highest decorations, the Rhodesia Native Regiment was quickly disbanded after the war and conveniently forgotten by the colonial establishment. Southern Rhodesias white settler minority, partly on the strength of its wartime sacrifice, was given political control of the territory through a racially exclusive form of self-government, but black RNR veterans received little support or recognition.

No Insignificant Part takes a new look at an old campaign and will appeal to scholars of African or military history interested in the First World War.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Timothy J. Stapleton has been a post-doctoral fellow at Rhodes University, a senior lecturer in history at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, and a research associate at the University of Zimbabwe. He is currently associate professor and chair of history at Trent University, Ontario. He is the author of Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom, 1780-1867 (WLU Press, 2001).

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

EUR 11,58 für den Versand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach Deutschland

Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781554585946: No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1554585945 ISBN 13:  9781554585946
Verlag: WILFRID LAURIER UNIV PR
Softcover

Suchergebnisse für No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment...

Beispielbild für diese ISBN

Stapleton, Tim
Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, 2006
ISBN 10: 0889204985 ISBN 13: 9780889204980
Neu Hardcover

Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich

Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen 5 Sterne, Erfahren Sie mehr über Verkäufer-Bewertungen

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. __0889204985

Verkäufer kontaktieren

Neu kaufen

EUR 86,94
Währung umrechnen
Versand: EUR 11,58
Von Vereinigtes Königreich nach Deutschland
Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer

Anzahl: 1 verfügbar

In den Warenkorb