Democracy's Foot Soldiers : World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldthree, Reena N.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A captivating history of the Afro-Caribbean soldiers who fought for the British Empire in World War I and their transnational campaign for equality Following the outbreak of World War I, tens of thousands of men from the British Caribbean volunteered as soldiers to fight on behalf of the British Empire.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Homefront Mobilizations

Chapter 1. The "Color Question": War and the Racial Fault Lines of Imperial Belonging

Chapter 2. "Every True Son of the Empire": Martial Masculinity, Transnational Migration, and the Politics of Recruitment

Part II: The Soldier'S Life

Chapter 3. "Humiliations and Disillusion": Military Labor and Wartime Interracial Encounters

Chapter 4. An "Insubordinate Spirit Prevailed": Rights, Respectability, and the Battle Against Discrimination in the British Army

Part III: Postwar Reckonings

Chapter 5. "Serious Discontent": Emigration, Rebellion, and Negotiation in the War's Aftermath

Chapter 6. "Equal Reward for Equal Service": Veterans' Politics in Postwar Trinidad

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-27253-0

OCLC:

1535966594