Nancy Lawler
Biographic Data
| ID | 82138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Lawler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawler |
| SIGNATURE | LAWLER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oakton Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The French Army and its African Soldiers
The French Army and its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 393–394
Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers
Nancy Ellen Lawler, Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers: the Gold Coast in World War II. Athens: Ohio University Press (hard covers US$49.95, £35.50, ISBN 0 8214 1430 5). 2002, 286 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3
"The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself" and Other Writings
History of Ashanti and the Whole Country and Other Writings. Edited by A. Adu Boahen, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Nancy Lawler, T. C. McCaskie, and Ivor Wilks. Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History, 6. New York: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2003. Pp. x, 234. $39.95. The History ofAshanti and the Whole Country Itself and Other Writings is billed as a documentary history, yet it is also both biography and autobiogr…
Memoirs of the Maelstrom
The Crossing of the Gyaman to the Cross of Lorraine
In January 1942 virtually the entire leadership of the Gyaman kingdom of the Abron crossed the border into Ghana (then the Gold Coast), seeking sanctuary from the Vichy controlled administration of the Côte d'Ivoire. Leaving the cercle of Bonduku, the Gyamanhene, joined by several thousand followers who risked their lives and property, declared that ‘they had left a dead flag’ and had come to ‘continue war until victory and the liberation of Fran…
Le Soldat Africain et le Politique
History of Africa
Soldiers of Misfortune
Soldiers of Misfortune
This is a study of the African veterans of a European war. It is a story of men from the Cote d'Ivoire, many of whom had seldom traveled more than a few miles from their villages, who served France as tirailleurs (riflemen) during World War II. Thousands of them took part in the doomed attempt to hold back the armies of the Third Reich in 1940; many were to spend the rest of the war as prisoners in Germany or Occupied France. Others more fortunat…
Colonial Conscripts
Tirailleurs Senegalais
Reform and repression under the Free French
Opening ParagraphFew dispute the proposition that the Second World War marked the beginning of the end of colonialism in Africa. The thesis developed by Hodgkin (1956), Crowder (1968, 1978) and Schachter-Morgenthau (1964)-that coalitions of African veterans, disgruntled planters, peasants and chiefs gave rise to anti-colonialist, nationalist political movements in the immediate post-war era-has not been seriously challenged. The general acceptanc…
Memoirs of the Maelstrom
Soldiers of Misfortune
This is a study of the African veterans of a European war. It is a story of men from the Cote d'Ivoire, many of whom had seldom traveled more than a few miles from their villages, who served France as tirailleurs (riflemen) during World War II. Thousands of them took part in the doomed attempt to hold back the armies of the Third Reich in 1940; many were to spend the rest of the war as prisoners in Germany or Occupied France. Others more fortunat…
Reform and repression under the Free French
Opening ParagraphFew dispute the proposition that the Second World War marked the beginning of the end of colonialism in Africa. The thesis developed by Hodgkin (1956), Crowder (1968, 1978) and Schachter-Morgenthau (1964)-that coalitions of African veterans, disgruntled planters, peasants and chiefs gave rise to anti-colonialist, nationalist political movements in the immediate post-war era-has not been seriously challenged. The general acceptanc…
Colonial Conscripts
The French Army and its African Soldiers
The French Army and its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 393–394
The Crossing of the Gyaman to the Cross of Lorraine
In January 1942 virtually the entire leadership of the Gyaman kingdom of the Abron crossed the border into Ghana (then the Gold Coast), seeking sanctuary from the Vichy controlled administration of the Côte d'Ivoire. Leaving the cercle of Bonduku, the Gyamanhene, joined by several thousand followers who risked their lives and property, declared that ‘they had left a dead flag’ and had come to ‘continue war until victory and the liberation of Fran…
Reform and repression under the Free French
Opening ParagraphFew dispute the proposition that the Second World War marked the beginning of the end of colonialism in Africa. The thesis developed by Hodgkin (1956), Crowder (1968, 1978) and Schachter-Morgenthau (1964)-that coalitions of African veterans, disgruntled planters, peasants and chiefs gave rise to anti-colonialist, nationalist political movements in the immediate post-war era-has not been seriously challenged. The general acceptanc…
Tirailleurs Senegalais
Soldiers of Misfortune
This is a study of the African veterans of a European war. It is a story of men from the Cote d'Ivoire, many of whom had seldom traveled more than a few miles from their villages, who served France as tirailleurs (riflemen) during World War II. Thousands of them took part in the doomed attempt to hold back the armies of the Third Reich in 1940; many were to spend the rest of the war as prisoners in Germany or Occupied France. Others more fortunat…
Colonial Conscripts
History of Africa
Soldiers of Misfortune
Le Soldat Africain et le Politique
The Crossing of the Gyaman to the Cross of Lorraine
In January 1942 virtually the entire leadership of the Gyaman kingdom of the Abron crossed the border into Ghana (then the Gold Coast), seeking sanctuary from the Vichy controlled administration of the Côte d'Ivoire. Leaving the cercle of Bonduku, the Gyamanhene, joined by several thousand followers who risked their lives and property, declared that ‘they had left a dead flag’ and had come to ‘continue war until victory and the liberation of Fran…
Memoirs of the Maelstrom
Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers
Nancy Ellen Lawler, Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers: the Gold Coast in World War II. Athens: Ohio University Press (hard covers US$49.95, £35.50, ISBN 0 8214 1430 5). 2002, 286 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3
"The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself" and Other Writings
History of Ashanti and the Whole Country and Other Writings. Edited by A. Adu Boahen, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Nancy Lawler, T. C. McCaskie, and Ivor Wilks. Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History, 6. New York: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2003. Pp. x, 234. $39.95. The History ofAshanti and the Whole Country Itself and Other Writings is billed as a documentary history, yet it is also both biography and autobiogr…
The French Army and its African Soldiers
The French Army and its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 393–394
African history and culture studies (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)