Conflict and Community in the Trenches

Military Justice Archives and Interactions between Soldiers in France's Armée d'Afrique, 1914-18

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4493499
AutoresClaire Eldridge (0000-0002-9159-3547, University of Leeds, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume93
Fascículo1
Páginas23-46
Data de publicação2022-05-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/hwj/dbab031
OpenAlexW4213271112
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas8

This article demonstrates the methodological value of using military justice archives to explore how soldiers navigated the multi-ethnic French army during the First World War. It focuses on Armée d'Afrique units containing high concentrations of colonial subjects and uses crime records to consider the implications of this unprecedented level of diversity. Emphasizing the experiences and voices of men otherwise scarce in the historical record deepens our understanding of how discrimination and inequality functioned within the supposedly egalitarian structures of the French military and foregrounds the complex ways in which race intersected with other markers of identity to structure combatant experiences

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Combatant · Criminology · Diversity (politics) · Economic Justice · Ethnic group · Identity (music) · Political science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact