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A Black Corps d'Elite

Author : Richard Hill
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0870139266
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Black Corps d'Elite written by Richard Hill and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1995-05-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would better survive the tropical diseases that so terribly afflicted European soldiers. In both cases, the Africans did indeed fulfill these expectations. The mixture of cultures embodied by this event has piqued the interest of several historians, so it is by no means unknown. Hill and Hogg provide a particularly thorough account of this exotic interlude, explaining its background, looking in detail at the battle record in Mexico, and figuring out who exactly made up the battalion. Much in their account is odd and interesting, for example, the Sudanese superiority to Austrian troops and their festive nine-day spree in Paris on the emperor's tab. The authors also assess the episode's longer-term impact on the Sudan, showing that the veterans of Mexico, having learnt much from their extended exposure to French military practices, rose quickly in the ranks, then taught these methods to others.

“A” Black Corps D'élite

Author : Richard Leslie Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book “A” Black Corps D'élite written by Richard Leslie Hill and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Khedive Ismail's Army

Author : John P. Dunn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714657042
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Khedive Ismail's Army written by John P. Dunn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first detailed examination in English of the Egyptian-Abyssinian War and looks at the root problems that made Ismail's soldiers ineffective, including class, racism, politics, finance, and changing military technology.

Wanderings

Author : Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487798
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Wanderings written by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : departing -- Inaugural migration to North America. The first to arrive : Sati Majid. The Bahara : an immigrant community -- Post 1989 migration : four experiences. Southern Sudanese : a community in exile. Beyond the storm : Sudanese post-Gulf War migration. The Copts : a perpetual diaspora. Migration with a feminine face : breaking the cultural mold -- The Ghorb a: life in exile. Economic bearings. Finding refuge in the shrine of culture. Political life. Epilogue : Racialization and a nation in absentia.

Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico

Author : George H. Junne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313065055
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico written by George H. Junne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.

Slaves of Fortune

Author : Ronald M. Lamothe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010423
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Slaves of Fortune written by Ronald M. Lamothe and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army. Making use of unpublished primary sources and published material located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, Slaves of Fortune provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces. -- Jacket.

West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960)

Author : Timothy Stapleton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1648250254
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army (1860-1960) written by Timothy Stapleton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960 explores the history of Britain's West African colonial army based in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia placing it within a broader social context and emphasizing, as far as possible, the experience of the ordinary soldier. The aim is not to describe the many battles and campaigns fought by this force but to look at the development of the West African colonial army as an institution over the course of about a century. In pursuing this goal, it is sometimes useful to employ the lens of military culture defined differently by scholars but essentially meaning a set of shared ideas and behaviors that inform daily life in the military. While other locally recruited colonial militaries in Africa have attracted considerable attention from historians as they served as an essential pillar supporting European rule, this book represents the first comprehensive scholarly study of Britain's West African army which was the largest such British-led force south of the Sahara. The study is based on extensive archival research conducted in nine archives located in five countries"--

Egypts African Empire

Author : Dr Alice Moore-Harell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641838
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Egypts African Empire written by Dr Alice Moore-Harell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going northsouth conflict in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to suppress the lucrative slave trade in the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, and to this end the new province was to be under direct control of Cairo and not the authorities in Khartoum. The two conquering expeditions of Equatoria were led by Britons, Samuel Baker and Charles Gordon (later Governor-General of the Sudan). With them were other Europeans, Americans, Sudanese and Egyptians. Baker, Gordon and some of the others left detailed accounts of their experience in the region. All of which contribute to our knowledge not only of the difficulties involved in the annexation of a region thousands of kilometres from Cairo, but also geographical data and a record of the complex human relations that developed between the men involved in the expeditions, and the creation of the new province. Official documents from the Egyptian state archive, Dar al-Wathaiq, provide detailed accounts of the politics of the annexation of Equatoria, and these accounts are discussed in their historical context.

Zouave Theaters

Author : Carol E. Harrison
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807182117
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Zouave Theaters written by Carol E. Harrison and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling new study, Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown chart the rise and fall of the Zouave uniform, the nineteenth century’s most important military fashion fad for men and women on both sides of the Atlantic. Originating in French colonial Algeria, the uniform was characterized by an open, collarless jacket, baggy trousers, and a fez. As Harrison and Brown demonstrate, the Zouaves embraced ethnic, racial, and gender crossing, liberating themselves from the strictures of bourgeois society. Some served as soldiers in Papal Rome, the United States, the British West Indies, and Brazil, while others acted in theatrical performances that combined drag and drill. Zouave Theaters analyzes the interaction of the stage and the military, and reveals that the Zouave persona influenced visual artists from painters and photographers to illustrators and filmmakers.

Native Sons

Author : Gregory Mann
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337683
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Native Sons written by Gregory Mann and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration of that relationship in the postcolonial era. Mann explains that in the early twenty-first century, among Africans in France and Africa, and particularly in Mali--where Mann conducted his research--the belief that France has not adequately recognized and compensated the African veterans of its wars is widely held and frequently invoked. It continues to animate the political relationship between France and Africa, especially debates about African immigration to France. Focusing on the period between World War I and 1968, Mann draws on archival research and extensive interviews with surviving Malian veterans of French wars to explore the experiences of the African soldiers. He describes the effects their long absences and infrequent homecomings had on these men and their communities, he considers the veterans' status within contemporary Malian society, and he examines their efforts to claim recognition and pensions from France. Mann contends that Mali is as much a postslavery society as it is a postcolonial one, and that specific ideas about reciprocity, mutual obligation, and uneven exchange that had developed during the era of slavery remain influential today, informing Malians' conviction that France owes them a "blood debt" for the military service of African soldiers in French wars.

The Cambridge History of Egypt

Author : Carl F. Petry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521472111
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Egypt written by Carl F. Petry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history for student and scholarly reference.

Race and Slavery in the Middle East

Author : Terence Walz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774163982
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Race and Slavery in the Middle East written by Terence Walz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet little is known about them. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean.

Kordafan Invaded

Author : Endre Stiansen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004110496
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Kordafan Invaded written by Endre Stiansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to state structures.

Kordofan Invaded

Author : Stiansen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004491384
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Kordofan Invaded written by Stiansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses economic change, regional politics and Islamisation in Kordofan, a large province in the Sudan. Kordofan's history is characterised by resistance and adaptation to expanding states and market forces causing both sectoral transformation and stagnation. The contributions in different ways examine the interplay between local and invading institutions, and include studies of Kordofan as a terra media between Darfur and Sinnar, international trade in the nineteenth century, the Mahdist revolt, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (with particular reference to land tenure and tribal identity), Kordofan in Sudanese nationalist poetry, local politics in the Nuba Mountains and the conflict between religious orthodoxy and local practice. The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to the state structures. This edited volume explores the history, social structure and economy of Kordofan in the Sudan. Representing several academic disciplines, each chapter is concerned with the long-term incorporation - through invasions - of the region into wider socio-political and economic structures.

Global Security Watch—Sudan

Author : Richard A. Lobban Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Global Security Watch—Sudan written by Richard A. Lobban Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of contemporary issues in Sudan, Africa's largest nation, examining the country's history and current scene to help readers develop a deeper understanding of how much Sudan matters in today's world. With deep connections to the Sahel and savanna to the west, the African world to the south, the Horn of Africa to the east, and the Middle East to the north, Sudan is important strategically, legally, geopolitically, and militarily—but too often overlooked, or underestimated. Sudan, the country of residence of Osama bin Laden for six years, has played, and will continue to play, a significant role in worldwide security matters. An analysis of the causes, resolutions, and implications of the ongoing Sudanese conflicts (including the genocide in Darfur), this book is essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and students alike. This book considers Sudan's historical foundations, examining how the agendas of countries to the south, east, and north have influenced Sudan's people and government. The author also explains the origins and context of the Darfur conflict, laying out possible steps toward a resolution. Questions concerning Sudanese oil—where is it? how much is there? to whom does it belong?—help focus any discussion of Sudan's emerging importance in the contemporary world. Other issues—such as the influence of Islamism or the Sudanese activities of the Arab League, China, or the African Union—underline the uncertainties that confront the people of Sudan today.

The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World

Author : Roger Chickering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316175928
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World written by Roger Chickering and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.

Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century: A Turbulent History

Author : Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317477499
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century: A Turbulent History written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa in the nineteenth century unfolds from the perspective of Africans themselves rather than the European powers.It was above all a time of tremendous internal change on the African continent. Great jihads of Muslim conquest and conversion swept over West Africa. In the interior, warlords competed to control the internal slave trade. In the east, the sultanate of Zanzibar extended its reach via coastal and interior trade routes. In the north, Egypt began to modernize while Algeria was colonized. In the south, a series of forced migrations accelerated, spurred by the progression of white settlement.Through much of the century African societies assimilated and adapted to the changes generated by these diverse forces. In the end, the West's technological advantage prevailed and most of Africa fell under European control and lost its independence. Yet only by taking into account the rich complexity of this tumultuous past can we fully understand modern Africa from the colonial period to independence and the difficulties of today.