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6 Society, Mass Warfare, and Gender in Europe during and after the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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War and the Imperial Spirit War and the Imperial Spirit
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Competing Imperial Masculinities Competing Imperial Masculinities
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Military Masculinity and Imperial Significations of Power Military Masculinity and Imperial Significations of Power
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Military Sacrifice and National Identity Military Sacrifice and National Identity
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Imperial Military Service and National Independence Imperial Military Service and National Independence
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The Significance of Colonial Military Service in Postimperial Nations The Significance of Colonial Military Service in Postimperial Nations
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23 Gender, Peace, and the New Politics of Humanitarianism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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21 Colonial Soldiers, Race, and Military Masculinities during and beyond World Wars I and II
Get accessRichard Smith is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written widely on the experience of West Indian troops in both world wars and the race and gender implications of military service in comparative context. His publications include the monograph Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness (2004); and several articles and book chapters, including, most recently, “The Multicultural First World War: Memories of the West Indian Contribution in Contemporary Britain,” Journal of European Studies 45, no. 4, (2015); and “Loss and Longing: Emotional Responses to West Indian Soldiers during the First World War,” in The British Empire and The First World War, edited by Ashley Jackson (2017).
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Published:10 November 2020
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Abstract
Millions of colonial soldiers served the empires during World Wars I and II. Until the end of the twentieth century their history and memory received little attention. This chapter shows how martial-race theory, notions of mental capacity, and pre–world war experiences impacted the deployment of colonial troops. These factors included fear of arming colonial subjects, anxieties about the apparent mental and physical incapacity of some white soldiers, and pragmatic strategic considerations. The chapter takes a comparative approach to explore how the imperial military service of colonial soldiers contributed to masculine visions of independent nationhood and citizenship following the First and Second World Wars. Visions of heroic masculine sacrifice were appropriated by emerging nations, even where war service involved discrimination and deployment as military labor. The chapter also evaluates the extent to which imperial loyalty and the hope of postwar political patronage motivated colonial troops.
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