Memoirs of the Maelstrom

by Lunn, Joe

• ISBN13: 9780325001388
• ISBN10: 0325001383
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-21
• Publisher: Greenwood-Heineman

Summary

Lunn's book offers novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the conduct of colonial recruitment drives and their impact on Africans, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered many African soldiers' previous attitudes about themselves, their societies, and the French.

Author Biography

JOE LUNN is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His publications include articles in Africa and the First World War and the Journal of Contemporary History. He is presently working on a second book entitled African Voices from the Great War: An Anthology of Senegalese Soldiers' Life Histories, which will further explore the First World War's impact on the lives of the Senegalese.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
The Vision of the Vanquished: Memories of the Prewar Colonial Order	9	(24)
The Tax in Blood: Military Recruitment in Rural Senegal, 1914--1917	33	(26)
The War to Obtain Rights: Conscription in the Communes and the Diagne Mission of 1918	59	(32)
``The Long Journey'': From Kayor to the Cote d'Azur	91	(29)
``To Meet Death Far Away'': The Senegalese in the Trenches	120	(37)
``Bons Soldats'' and ``Sales Negres'': Senegalese Contacts with the French	157	(30)
Beneath the Roots of the Baobab: The Repatriation of the Soldiers and the Postwar Colonial Order in Senegal	187	(50)
Conclusion: The Legacy of the First World War in Senegal	223	(5)
Postscript: Discordant Voices: The Veterans Speak	228	(9)
Glossary	237	(4)
Sources	241	(16)
Index	257