Interview-Podcast (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Marshall Poe
Publication: New Books in History
Date: 11/2/2008
Abstract: The thing about empire building is that when you’re done building one, you’ve got to figure out what to do with it. This generally involves the “extraction of resources.” We tend to think of this in terms of things like gold, oil, or rubber. But people can be “extracted” as well. The French empire of the later nineteenth century offers a case in point. Having found themselves in a very nasty war with the Germans, the French decided that it might be useful to enlist their African and Southeast Asian colonials in the fighting. As Richard Fogarty demonstrates in his excellent new book Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), this effort to draft the colonials led to no end of paradoxes. France was the home of Republicanism, and Republicans are supposed to be keen on liberté, égalité, fraternité. But the colonials weren’t at liberty–they were subjects. Neither were they equal–they enjoyed few of the rights of th
URL: http://newbooksinhistory.com/2008/11/02/richard-fogarty-race-and-war-in-france-colonial-subjects-in-the-french-army/
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Publication: American Historical Review
Date: 4/1/2009
Abstract: 114, no. 2, 493
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Publication: The Journal of Military History
Date: 4/1/2009
Abstract: 73, no. 2 (April 2009), 668-669
(Review)
Publication: Parameters
Date: 12/21/2011
Abstract: (Summer 2009), 130-131
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Publication: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Date: 12/21/2011
Abstract: 10, no. 2 (Fall 2009)
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Publication: Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association
Date: 12/21/2011
Abstract: no. 84 (December 2008-January 2009)
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Publication: H-France Review 11, no. 148 (July 2011).
Date: 12/21/2011
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Publication: Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41, no. 1, (Summer 2010), 140-141
Date: 12/21/2011
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Publication: Journal of World History 21, no. 2 (June 2010), 353-356
Date: 12/21/2011
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Publication: H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews, July, 2010
Date: 12/21/2011
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Publication: First World War Studies 1, no. 2 (October 2010), 205-207
Date: 12/21/2011
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Publication: The Journal of Modern History, 82, no. 4. (December 2010), 959-960
Date: 12/21/2011
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Publication: French Politics, Culture & Society, 28, no. 3 (Winter 2010), 133-136;
Date: 12/21/2011
(Review)
Publication: War in History
Date: 12/21/2011
Abstract: 16, no. 4 (November 2009), 527-529
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Publication: Canadian Journal of History
Date: 12/21/2011
Abstract: 44, no. 3 (Winter 2010), 539-541
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Publication: International History Review. 32, no. 1, (2010), 155-156
Date: 12/21/2011
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Publication: Journal of Intercultural Studies 31, no. 2 (April 2010), 219-221
Date: 12/21/2011
(Review)
Publication: Black and Asian Studies Newsletter 56 (March 2010), 28-30
Date: 12/21/2011
(Review)
Publication: ; French History 24, no. 1 (March 2010), 123-125
Date: 12/21/2011