Color Lines, Front Lines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4052935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Moyd |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2018 |
| Issue | 131 |
| Pages | 13-35 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-4355109 |
| OpenAlex | W2808928765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Research Article| May 01 2018 Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South Michelle Moyd Michelle Moyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 13–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Moyd; Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South. Radical History Review 1 May 2018; 2018 (131): 13–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355109 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search The Great War was waged as much by workers—including soldiers—from the South as the North. Black and Brown soldiers recruited from across European empires experienced and perpetrated extreme violence in the African campaigns in which they took part. This essay imagines colonial troops as Global South soldiers, using the space of German East Africa as a site where they become visible as such. It foregrounds their battlefield histories to call attention to new ways of thinking about their roles in the war. First, it speculates on how experiences between 1914 and 1918 in one African theater of the war created shared meanings amongst soldiers, regardless of their origins. Second, it posits that the violent work soldiers performed in the name of empire was a formative experience for millions of men who fought, and suggests that a shift in vantage point for thinking about the war is constructive in reassessing the war's legacies one hundred years on. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Great War, colonial troops, German East Africa, African theater Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.2018 You do not currently have access to this content
Ancient history · Archaeology · Battlefield · Citation · Colonialism · Empire · Geography · Icon · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · World War II · African history and culture studies · Computer Science · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |