A Plague of Europeans: Westerners in Africa Since the 15th Century

History

Killingray, David

Africa

Penguin??Books

<p>Provides information and statistics on the governments, leading politicians, political parties, trade unions, armed forces, foreign affairs, economics, and populations of the African countries</p>

African Political Facts Since 1945

COOK, CHRIS

FACTS ON FILE+

First-person accounts of black British Christians over the past 250 years, encompassing subjects like work, family, faith, hopes and ambitions. Here are intimate portraits, all part of a rich and fascinating seam of British history that has been largely ignored.

Black voices: The Shaping Of Our Christian Experience

Religion & Spirituality

Edwards, Joel

Christian Books & Bibles

During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below' that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little. Army life exposed them to a range of new and startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms, machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas, new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy. What impact did service in the army have on African men and their families? What new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War

Plaut, Martin

James Currey

<p>This book offers a fresh perspective on British history in the long nineteenth century through the lens of a study of Sevenoaks and the surrounding area of West Kent. It considers, in particular, how the risks faced by the people of this region, and the choices they made to try to mitigate them, shaped their lives and relationships. During a period of often dramatic change, the economic, social, political, religious, and cultural interests of individuals were subject to different risk factors; the responses they made (and the reasons for those choices) provide valuable insights and enable the writing of highly nuanced local history.</p>

Sevenoaks 1790–1914: Risk and choice in West Kent

Taylor, Iain

Europe

University Of Hertfordshire Press

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