Soldiers of empire
Indian and British armies in World War II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9906320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Lawson (0000-0001-9110-1883, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Simon Ball (0000-0001-7410-5268, University of Leeds), Paul Higate (0000-0001-8217-2313, University of Bath), Patricia Owens (0000-0001-7530-463X, University of Sussex), Robbie Shilliam (0000-0002-9966-8574), Michael Williams (0000-0001-5161-3219, University of Ottawa), Tarak Barkawi (0000-0001-5526-5055, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1453-1470 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iix214 |
| OpenAlex | W3035754912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Soldiers of empire is a wonderful book: beautifully written, expertly crafted and mixing high theory with historical detail in a way that is as rare as it is illuminating. All contributors to this forum agree that it is a work of immense scholarship, one that occupies an innovative space at the interstices of military history, historical sociology and post-colonial theory. Curiously for a book that engages relatively little International Relations (IR) scholarship, it also represents the best that IR has to offer, showing how transboundary interactions, as represented by flows of race, class and gender, blended into a cosmopolitan bricolage: the Indian Army. And this army, Barkawi argues, is but one instantiation of a general dynamic. Militaries are the quintessentially cosmopolitan institution, one made cohesive through the systematic incorporation of multiple identities, cultures, cosmologies and histories. As the pre-eminent sites of organized violence, armies are at home anywhere in the world
Ancient history · Art · Bricolage · Colonialism · Empire · First world war · Institution · Literature · Political science · Race (biology · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |