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Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War Book

Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War
Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War, Lunn's book offers novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the conduct of colonial recruitment drives and their impact on Africans, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered many African soldiers' previous attitud, Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War has a rating of 4 stars
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Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War, Lunn's book offers novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the conduct of colonial recruitment drives and their impact on Africans, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered many African soldiers' previous attitud, Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War
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  • Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War
  • Written by author Joe Lunn
  • Published by Heinemann, October 1999
  • Lunn's book offers novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the conduct of colonial recruitment drives and their impact on Africans, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered many African soldiers' previous attitud
  • Experiences of West African soldiers who fought alongside the French in the First World War. Booknews Between 1914 and 1918, the French army recruited some 140,000 West Africans who served as combatants on the Western Front. Focusing on Se
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Introduction1
1The Vision of the Vanquished: Memories of the Prewar Colonial Order9
2The Tax in Blood: Military Recruitment in Rural Senegal, 1914-191733
3The War to Obtain Rights: Conscription in the Communes and the Diagne Mission of 191859
4"The Long Journey": From Kayor to the Cote d'Azur91
5"To Meet Death Far Away": The Senegalese in the Trenches120
6"Bons Soldats" and "Sales Negres": Senegalese Contacts with the French157
7Beneath the Roots of the Baobab: The Repatriation of the Soldiers and the Postwar Colonial Order in Senegal187
Conclusion: The Legacy of the First World War in Senegal223
Postscript: Discordant Voices: The Veterans Speak228
Glossary237
Sources241
Index257


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