Jamaican volunteers in the First World War : race, masculinity and the development of national consciousness / Richard Smith.
Publication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.Description: ix, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0719069858
- 9780719069857
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Jamaica
- Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- World War, 1914-1918
- Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- Minorities -- History -- 20th century
- Jamaica -- History -- To 1962
- Armed Forces -- Minorities
- Recruiting and enlistment
- Great Britain
- Jamaica
- Freiwilliger
- Weltkrieg 1914-1918
- Milit ar
- Jamaika
- Gro britannien
- Jamaikaner
- To 1999
- 940.4/097292 22
- D547.J3 S65 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Jamaica May 1938 -- 1. Degeneration and male hysteria : the wartime crisis of white masculinity -- 2. 'The cannon's summoning roar' : Jamaica and the outbreak of war -- 3. recruitment of Jamaican volunteers -- 4. Jamaican soldiers in Europe and the Middle East -- 5. 'Their splendid physical proportions' : the black soldier in the white imagination -- 6. Discrimination and mutiny -- 7. Military endeavour, nationalism and pan-Africanism.
Richard Smith explores the dynamics of race and masculinity to provide historical insight into the First World War and its imperial dimensions, examining the experiences of Jamaicans who served in British regiments.
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