War veterans and the world after 1945 : cold war politics, decolonization, memory / edited by Ángel Alcalde and Xosé M. Núñez Seixas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alcalde, Ángel, editor.

Núñez Seixas, Xosé M. (Xosé Manoel), 1966- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in modern history ; 39.

Routledge studies in modern history ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Social conditions.

World War, 1939-1945.

War and society.

Veterans.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 256 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

The Cold War

The International Federation of Resistance Fighters: Communist antifascism, Germany and Europe / Václav Midrkal

The World Veterans Federation: Cold War politics and globalization / Ángel Alcalde

Race and decolonization

South African veterans and the institutionalisation of apartheid in South Africa / Jonathan Fennell

Enforcing conformity: Race in the American Legion, 1940-1960 / Olivier Burtin

Fighting for their freedom at home: Native American Vietnam Veterans in the red power movement, 1969-1973 / Matthias Voigt

Poppies, pensions, passports: The British Legion and transnational civil society action in decolonizing Hong Kong / Daniel Schumacher

Decolonization and state-building

Algerian Veterans Associations in the late Colonial Period in Algeria, 1945-1962 / Samuel André-Bercovici

Colonial soldiers and postcolonial politics in Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Upper Volta, 1958-1973 / Riina Turtio

War, mobilization, and development in the Islamic Republic of Iran: From the construction Jihad to the Trench Builders Association, 1979-2013 / Eric Lob

Veterans, decolonization, and land expropriation in post-independence Zimbabwe, 2000-2008 / Obert Bernard Mlambo

Inconvenient heroes? War veterans from the Eastern Front in Franco's Spain, 1942-1975 / Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Authority and anti-war politics of French Veterans of the Algerian War of decolonisation / Hugh Mcdonnell

State power, cultural exchange and the "forgotten war": British Veterans of the Korean War, 1953-2013 / Grace Huxford

Retracing memories of war: South African military veterans as tourists in Angola / Gary Baines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815359715

0815359713

OCLC:

1033556666