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Author : Melvin Eugene Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913294854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Chiwaya War Voices written by Melvin Eugene Page and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin Page
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9996066630
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Chiwaya War written by Melvin Page and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chiwaya War's basic conclusions are that the First World War was a major turning point in the history of Malawi's peoples, creating the first glimmers of a shared national identity; and that it marked, more than any event before or since, the entry of Malawians into the emerging modern world system far more quickly than likely they, and certainly even the most enlightened British colonial administrators of the time, would have preferred.
Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Voices of World War I written by Priscilla Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a diverse collection of primary source documents, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War I from a variety of perspectives, from soldiers on the front lines to civilians supporting the war effort at home. Part of Bloomsbury's Voices of an Era series, this carefully curated collection highlight the wartime experiences of a diverse array of individuals from around the globe. In addition to covering major military innovations and turning points, documents explore how issues of gender, race,diplomacy, and empire building impacted individuals' experience of the Great War. Each of the 42 documents includes contextual information and thought-provoking questions to guide readers in their exploration of the text. In addition to high-interest sidebars, in-text glossary definitions, biographical snapshots of key figures, and a comprehensive chronology of the war, the book also includes a guide to evaluating and interpreting primary sources that bolsters readers' analytical and critical thinking skills. Although it was nicknamed "the war to end all wars," World War I heralded the start of modern-day conflicts. The human toll of the Great War was immense-an estimated 9 million soldiers died on the battlefield, while more than 5 million civilians died as the result of military actions, disease, or famine. In the wake of World War I, empires crumbled and new nations won their independence. Although the events and aftermath of World War I happened on an epic scale, the conflict is best understood through the human lens provided by these primary sources.
Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813307350
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Chiwaya War written by Melvin E Page and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2000-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War I came to the British Protectorate of Nyasaland, Africans called it the Chiwaya War, from a Chichewa word meaning a “potsherd used for roasting grain.” Malawians first used the word to describe military mess tins. When they later discovered that grain roasted on the tins made a distinct popping sound, they began using the term to describe the noise of machine guns rattling around them. Gradually, chiwaya became associated with the war itself, the conflict's new military technology, and the effects of the war, which seemed to be everywhere, like the sudden scattering in all directions of the popping maize.This is the fascinating story of how most of the adult male population of Malawi was pulled, for the most part unwillingly, into the horrors of a modern war. Melvin Page not only examines the recruitment and military service of Malawian askari (soldiers) and tenga-tenga (military laborers) but also considers the impact of wartime experience on all facets of Malawian life. The Chiwaya War became the nation's first truly national experience, and as such was a watershed in Malawian history.Based on extensive use of oral sources, plus archival research in Africa, Europe, and the United States, The Chiwaya War is the most complete analysis of the effects of the World War I on any African country. As such, the book sets a standard for the further study of the impact of the Great War not only in Africa, but in other areas of the world as well.
Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000315436
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Chiwaya War written by Melvin E Page and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the great War's effect on Africa in general and Malawi in particular. It describes the outbreak of the war, the recruitment of soldiers, the drafting of porters, the conditions of military life, the conditions on the home front, and the war's end.
Author : Melvin E. Page
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478651369
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book A Short Guide to Writing about History written by Melvin E. Page and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely used guide for students has long emphasized the excitement of historical discovery rooted in writing about the past. This new edition continues that emphasis while also affirming the contemporary significance of the search for truth in historical writing. It includes new and revised sections related to electronic technologies as well as updated examples of recent historical scholarship throughout. It maintains the welcoming, accessible, and inclusive tone of previous editions while walking students through complex ideas and established writing standards. As it has since its inception, the tenth edition of A Short Guide to Writing about History helps students confront and conquer any of the challenges they might face in writing about history.
Author : Tammy M. Proctor
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081476780X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918 written by Tammy M. Proctor and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I heralded a new global era of warfare, consolidating and expanding changes that had been building throughout the previous century, while also instituting new notions of war. The 1914-18 conflict witnessed the first aerial bombing of civilian populations, the first widespread concentration camps for the internment of enemy alien civilians, and an unprecedented use of civilian labor and resources for the war effort. Humanitarian relief programs for civilians became a common feature of modern society, while food became as significant as weaponry in the fight to win. Tammy M. Proctor argues that it was World War I—the first modern, global war—that witnessed the invention of both the modern “civilian” and the “home front,” where a totalizing war strategy pitted industrial nations and their citizenries against each other. Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918, explores the different ways civilians work and function in a war situation, and broadens our understanding of the civilian to encompass munitions workers, nurses, laundresses, refugees, aid workers, and children who lived and worked in occupied zones, on home and battle fronts, and in the spaces in between. Comprehensive and global in scope, spanning the Eastern, Western, Italian, East African, and Mediterranean fronts, Proctor examines in lucid and evocative detail the role of experts in the war, the use of forced labor, and the experiences of children in the combatant countries. As in many wars, civilians on both sides of WWI were affected, and vast displacements of the populations shaped the contemporary world in countless ways, redrawing boundaries and creating or reviving lines of ethnic conflict. Exploring primary source materials and secondary studies of combatant and neutral nations, while synthesizing French, German, Dutch, and English language sources, Proctor transcends the artificial boundaries of national histories and the exclusive focus on soldiers. Instead she tells the fascinating and long-buried story of the civilian in the Great War, allowing voices from the period to speak for themselves.
Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052150984X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Race, Empire and First World War Writing written by Santanu Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.
Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Mzuni Press
ISBN 13 : 9789996066627
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)
Download or read book The Chiwaya War written by Melvin E Page and published by Mzuni Press. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chiwaya War's basic conclusions are that the First World War was a major turning point in the history of Malawi's peoples, creating the first glimmers of a shared national identity; and that it marked, more than any event before or since, the entry of Malawians into the emerging modern world system far more quickly than likely they, and certainly even the most enlightened British colonial administrators of the time, would have preferred.
Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190271108
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Gender and the Great War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centenary of the First World War in 2014-18 offers an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak, the gendered experiences of the war have been seen by contemporary observers and postwar commentators and scholars as being especially significant for shaping how the war can and must be understood. The negotiating of ideas about gender by women and men across vast reaches of the globe characterizes this modern, instrumental conflict. Over the past twenty-five years, as the scholarship on gender and this war has grown, there has never been a forum such as the one presented here that placed so many of the varying threads of this complex historiography into conversation with one another in a manner that is at once accessible and provocative. Given the vast literature on the war itself, scholarship on gender and various themes and topics provides students as well as scholars with a chance to think not only about the subject of the war but also the methodological implications of how historians have approached it. While many studies have addressed the national or transnational narrative of women in the war, none address both femininity and masculinity, and the experiences of both women and men across the same geographic scope as the studies presented in this volume.
Author : Anna Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108996914
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Contact Zones of the First World War written by Anna Maguire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Drawing on a rich variety of textual and visual material, Anna Maguire explores new contact zones that materialised beyond the battlefield, on troopships, in ports, in military camps and hospitals, in cafes and city streets. She reveals how the colonial mobilisation of troops during the conflict prompted the emergence of spaces for interactions, fleeting moments or ongoing relationships. Through their personal experiences, she uncovers how men from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies viewed themselves and their identities during a time of global conflict, simultaneously asserting the strength of the existing colonial order and challenging its enactment, through contact, conflict and collaboration. In spaces away from the frontlines, Maguire uses these cultural encounters of colonial troops to offer a more intricate understanding of imperial power relations.
Author : T. Cullen Young
Publisher : Gwaa / Tsl Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781915660671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Nyasaland Operations During the World War, 1914-1918 written by T. Cullen Young and published by Gwaa / Tsl Publications. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young's Nyasaland Operations manuscript was entrusted to the Society of Malawi in 1955, likely in the hope the Society would benefit by its publication. Now edited with commentary and annotations by Melvin E. Page, his accounts and personal recollections are at last available to a wider readership, offering a further perspective on the Great War as experienced primarily by Nyasaland's European population. The Great War in Africa Association is pleased to offer this compliment to the previously published Chiwaya War Voices which provides further reflections on the First World War through the eyes of the Protectorate's African inhabitants.
Author : William Kelleher Storey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742567249
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The First World War written by William Kelleher Storey and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second edition of this book is now available. In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey brings to life individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. Without neglecting traditional themes, the author's deft interweaving of the role of environment and technology enriches our understanding of the social, political, and military history of the war, not only in Europe, but throughout the world.
Author : Timothy C. Dowling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851095705
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Personal Perspectives written by Timothy C. Dowling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating collection of first-hand accounts brings to life the "War to End All Wars." Personal Perspectives: World War I offers a unique and unprecedented view of the Great War through the experiences of its participants—people of all ranks and races. Focusing on 12 major groups, essays by top international scholars put readers directly into the lives of victims of gas attacks, women factory workers, African American soldiers, pacifists, medical personnel, and other groups both on the battlefield and home front. Of interest to both students and nonexperts, the work tells the stories of soldiers who suffered in the trenches, U-boat and anti–U-boat personnel, German Americans in the United States, and women activists like Florence Jaffrey Harriman. Through the perspectives of commanders, captives, civilians, and social workers, readers will learn why British soldiers in the Netherlands were called "maiden robbers," how the YMCA set up huts to care for prisoners in POW camps, and how efforts to entertain U.S. troops led to the the largest theatrical enterprise in history.
Author : Kenneth Ross
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9996066118
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Malawi’s First Presbyterian Ministers written by Kenneth Ross and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malawi's first two Presbyterian ministers, Harry Kambwiri Matecheta and Stephen Kundecha, were ordained in March 1911. Ecclesiastically, this made them fully equal with their European fellow-ministers. There were, however, subtle and not-so-subtle racial codes that reminded them that they were expected to occupy a subordinate position. This Occasional Paper explores how they discovered their identity and vocation in a challenging context.
Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317875788
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Women and the First World War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War was the first modern, total war, one requiring the mobilisation of both civilians and combatants. Particularly in Europe, the main theatre of the conflict, this war demanded the active participation of both men and women. Women and the First World War provides an introduction to the experiences and contributions of women during this important turning point in history. In addition to exploring women’s relationship to the war in each of the main protagonist states, the book also looks at the wide-ranging effects of the war on women in Africa Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Topical in its approach, the book highlights: the heated public debates about women’s social, cultural and political roles that the war inspired their varied experiences of war women’s representation in propaganda their roles in peace movements and revolutionary activity that grew out of the war the consequences of the war for women in its immediate aftermath Containing a document section providing a wide range of sources from first-hand accounts, a Chronology and Glossary, Women and the First World War is an ideal text for students studying the First World War or the role of women in the twentieth century.
Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136819568
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Indian Postcolonial written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field, this Critical Reader confronts how theory in the Indian context is responding in vital terms to our understanding of that condition today. The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader is made up of four sections looking in turn at: visual cultures translating cultural traditions the ethical text global/cosmopolitan worlds. Each section is prefaced with a short introduction by the editors that locate these interdisciplinary articles within the contemporary national and international context. Showcasing the diversity and vitality of current debate, this volume collects the work of both established figures and a new generation of cultural critics. Challenging and unsettling many basic premises of postcolonial studies, this volume is the ideal Reader for students and scholars of the Indian Postcolonial.
