| 期刊全称 | Africa and the Second World War | | 影响因子2023 | David Killingray,Richard Rathbone | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | Pindex | Book 1986 |
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,Introduction, |
David Killingray,Richard Rathbone |
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To say that the Second World War was important is to make the last uncontroversial statement in African studies. Everyone knows that it was either the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end of European colonialism in Africa and that the huge global upheaval it unleashed had far-reaching effects upon politics, and economic and social life. The beginning of the war provides innumerable studies with a terminal date, just as 1945 has been a convenient opening for a similar number of influential works. But if this is so, it is remarkable that so little attention has been paid to the war both as a savage process and as a period in the history of Africa. Like the Great Depression and the influenza pandemic before it, it remains one of those sets of events and one of those eras that has been widely acknowledged to have been of immense significance and yet has attracted very little systematic study.. It is hard to account for this. Many of the most affected metropolitan countries and their ex-dependencies in Africa have permitted archival access to some, if not all, of the documentation for the period and have done so for nearly a decade now. It is, moreover, a period in which the
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,British Imperial Economic Policy During the War, |
Michael Cowen,Nicholas Westcott |
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This chapter examines the extent to which both the principle of total war and the experience of the Second World War reduced colonial autonomy and centralised imperial economic policy around the entity of a British national economy. The argument here is that British centralisation was accentuated during the war as the British government deliberately tried to regulate the use of sterling for international payments. If the use of international money within the Empire could be regulated through the British state, then it was hoped that a changed pattern of trade and production might be determined to conform to a distinct British national advantage. Control over sterling was a means of controlling the distribution of productive resources within the Empire without directly controlling colonial production itself.
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,Labour Mobilisation in British Colonial Africa for the War Effort, 1939–46, |
David Killingray |
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Soldiers fight battles but civilian labour is required to supply the war machine and sustain an army in the field.. Nineteenth-century military campaigns in tropical Africa relied on large numbers of porters and labourers to carry munitions and food to the front line.. During the First World War well over 1 million carriers were employed in various theatres, particularly in East Africa, where conscription was widely used and conditions were harsh and mortality high.. The Second World War introduced the concept of ‘total war’, with every part of the economy increasingly mobilised to support the war effort. From the outbreak of war in 1939 governments assumed extensive powers, especially over the mobilisation and direction of labour for military and war production purposes. In Britain the efficient ‘system of manpower budgeting became a very powerful instrument’ to balance the whole war economy..
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,The Depression and the Second World War in the Transformation of Kenya, |
John Lonsdale |
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In the course of depression and war Kenya underwent a double transformation of its state and society. The colony matured, but partially, from a segmentary into a centralised state and thereby became ungovernable. Its peoples faced unprecedented divisions, so that many of the weak felt that the strong had gone out of control.
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,The Impact of the Second World War on Tanganyika, 1939–49, |
Nicholas Westcott |
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‘War’, says Tristan Tzara in Tom Stoppard’s play ., ‘is capitalism with the gloves off’. During the Second World War Tanganyika experienced colonialism with the gloves off.. A sleepy imperial backwater, acquired late and held somewhat ambiguously under a Mandate, was transformed into an indispensible economic asset to Britain’s war effort. For Africans it was a reminder of their subordination to a distant ruler and distant events. ‘It is a fact that Imperialism has brought Africans face to face with the European war of Nationalism’, declared the Swahili newspaper ... Many Africans in Tanganyika, remembering their past, were ready and willing to fight against the Germans; but they did not miss the point, as they were so often told, that they were fighting not just for the King but for ‘freedom’. The economic hardship and government intervention that accompanied the war effort precipitated a change in African attitudes towards colonial rule that brought its end within immediate view.
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,The Impact of the Second World War: the Case of Kweneng in the then Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1939 |
Brian Mokopakgosi III |
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The impact of the Second World War on African communities has remained a neglected theme in the colonial history of the continent. In studies published in recent years a good deal of attention has tended to focus on the political, social and economic impact of the war on the continent as a whole,. on particular regions. or individual colonies.. Where in-depth studies have been made, they have focused on such themes as the impact of the war on returned soldiers,. and its consequences for the development of nationalism.. Few studies have yet been made of the impact of the war on a particular community, where both oral and archival data can be used to illuminate the consequences of the war on farmers, traders and women and children left behind by the soldiers, at the grassroots level.
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,The Recruitment of South African Blacks for Participation in the Second World War, |
Louis Grundlingh |
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Although the history of South Africa and the Second World War has received considerable attention (especially the military aspects), nothing substantial has yet been written on the participation of South African blacks in the war. Capt. J. C. Knoetze and Lt. M. Hallack respectively completed factual reports on the Non-European Army Services (NEAS) outside South Africa. and a record of the NEAS. shortly after the war. H. J. Martin and N. Orpen dismissed black participation in a few lines,. while E. Roux. and recently K. W. Grundy. each touched on the topic in passing. In an article in the ., M. Roth also cursorily dealt with the subject of South African blacks in the Second World War..
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,The Second World War in Southern Cameroon and its Impact on Mission-State Relations, 1939–50, |
Anthony Ndi |
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The Second World War threatened to be a major disaster for the British in Southern Cameroon.. The territory, officially a British Mandate of the League of Nations, presented some embarrassing features by 1939. Although an ex-German colony, German influence and not British transcended many facets of Cameroon colonial life.. Much of the commercial economy, particularly the cocoa, banana and rubber plantations and the import and export business remained in German hands. On the spiritual plane, all foreign nationals of the Basel Mission were either German or Swiss-Germans, as were all the German Baptist missionaries. A significant number of the Catholic missionaries were also German or Italian. German influence therefore was widespread. The British hold on Cameroon was light. Between the wars she played a minimum caretaker role and totally failed to create any serious economic, social, cultural or political impact on the territory or on its inhabitants. It is understandable therefore why the Administration became so nervous in 1939.
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,The Second World War and the Sierra Leone Economy: Labour Employment and Utilisation, 1939–45, |
Gilbert A. Sekgoma |
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Micro-studies. on the economic impact of the Second World War on some important strategic African colonial outposts of the British Empire, such as Sierra Leone. and Kenya, have not received much attention from political scientists and historians. This neglect in the past could be attributed to the inaccessibility of official materials covering the critical years 1939–45. This chapter seeks to stimulate research on this crucial period of African history now that some materials are open to the public in British and other archives. It examines the impact of the Second World War on Sierra Leone’s economy, with particular attention to labour utilisation. It reinforces the argument initially advanced by La Ray Denzer, L. Sptizer, M. Amolo and H. Conway that the colonial state used war-time emergency powers to crush the development of an independent labour movement. The paper also demonstrates the machinery of Britain’s manipulation and domination of Sierra Leone’s economy, and proceeds from two hypotheses: (i) that during the war, Sierra Leone’s economy was further integrated into that of the metropole and the resultant linkages continued into the post-colonial period; (ii) that Sierra L
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,Algerian Nationalism and the Allied Military Strategy and Propaganda during the Second World War: t |
Mohamed Khenouf,Michael Brett |
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In the history of Algerian nationalism, from its beginnings before the First World War down to the war of Algerian independence, 1954–62, the Second World War was a critical episode in which the demand for reform began to give way to the demand for independence. Two events stand out from the years 1940–5: firstly, the issuing of the ., a document claiming fully equal rights for the Muslim community, which was drawn up by the Muslim political leader Ferhat Abbas in 1943, and served as the basis for a Muslim front, the Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberté, created in 1944; and secondly, the communal massacres which began at Sétif and Guelma on VE day, 1945, killing scores of Europeans and thousands of Muslims, a foretaste of the violence to come.
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