The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004185453 ISBN 13 : 9789004185456

Editeur : Brill, 2010

Synopsis

The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their intersections. Drawing substantially on new sources such as oral accounts, propaganda material and artistic representations, the publication investigates the experiences of combatants and civilians on the frontline and in the rear of the front. It studies spontaneous and organized responses manifested in public debates, propaganda activities, and in individual and collective memories. Questioning conventional periodizations and discussing both wars together, the book analyses broader implications of the wars for African and Asian societies which resulted in significant social and political transformations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Heike Liebau is a historian/linguist who studied in Taschkent and received her PhD from University of Halle (Germany). She is presently a research fellow at ZMO in Berlin and works on the impact of print in colonial India as well as on Indian experiences of the First World War.

Katrin Bromber received her Ph.D. in African Linguistics from the University of Leipzig (Germany) and her habilitation degree from the University of Vienna (Austria). She specialized in Swahili Studies and currently works on sports in Ethiopia and the Gulf States. Since 2001 she has been affiliated to ZMO in Berlin.

Katharina Lange PhD in 2002 (University of Leipzig) is an anthropologist who studied in Tübingen, Leipzig, and Reed College / USA, and received her PhD in 2002. She has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt and currently works on oral and written historical narratives in northern Syria. She is a research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin.

Dyala Hamzah is research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin. She holds a M. Phil in philosophy (Sorbonne) and a PhD in History and Islamic Studies (Freie Universität Berlin, EHESS Paris).

Ravi Ahuja is a social historian of labour, infrastructure and war in colonial India. He is presently professor of Modern Indian History and the director of the newly founded Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004185453
• ISBN 13: 9789004185456
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 628
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible