Jamaican volunteers in the First World War : race, masculinity and the development of national consciousness / Richard Smith.
Publication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2004, 2009. Description: ix, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780719069864 (pbk.) :; 0719069866 (pbk.) :Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Jamaican | Military service, Voluntary -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- Minorities -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 940.4030941 LOC classification: D547. | J3 S65 2004
Contents:
Introduction 1. Degeneration and male hysteria: the wartime crisis of white masculinity 2. 'The cannon's summoning roar': Jamaica and the outbreak of war 3. The recruitment of Jamaican volunteers 4. Jamaican soldiers in Europe and the Middle East 5. 'Their splendid physical proportions': the black soldier in the white imagination 6. Discrimination and mutiny 7. Military endeavour, nationalism and Pan-Africanism Index
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Originally published: 2004.
Includes index.
Introduction 1. Degeneration and male hysteria: the wartime crisis of white masculinity 2. 'The cannon's summoning roar': Jamaica and the outbreak of war 3. The recruitment of Jamaican volunteers 4. Jamaican soldiers in Europe and the Middle East 5. 'Their splendid physical proportions': the black soldier in the white imagination 6. Discrimination and mutiny 7. Military endeavour, nationalism and Pan-Africanism Index