Botswana 1939-1945 An African Country at War

Name: Botswana 1939-1945 An African Country at War
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ISBN: 9780198207641

ISBN-10: 0198207646

ISBN-13: 9780198207641

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ashley Jackson

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This is the first full study of an African country during the Second World War. Unusually, it provides both an Africanist and an imperial perspective. Using extensive archival and oral evidence, Ashley Jackson explores the social, economic, political, agricultural, and military history of Botswana. He examines Botswana's military contribution to the war effort and the impact of the war on the African home front. The book focuses on events and personalities `on the ground' in Africa and also on their interaction with and impact upon events and personalities in distant imperial centres, such as Whitehall and the wartime British Army headquarters in the Middle East. The attitudes, aims, and…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/25/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at King's College London and the author of numerous articles and five books on British imperial history.



Abbreviations



Introduction



Recruitment, War Service, and Communications



Motivation and Mobilization for War: Recruitment for the British Army



At War: Basic Training, War Duties, and Deployment



At War: Welfare, Discipline, Race Relations, and Recreation



Bridging the Gaps: Communications and Control



The Home Front



The Home Front: The Economics of War



The Home Front: Women Soldiering On



Wartime Food Production: Grain Storage, the Warlands, and the Persistence of Agricultural Individualism



The Home Front: Political Developments and the Vision of the Post-war Future



Demobilization and Repatriation



'Our Hearts are Sad': Education, Demobilization, and the Post-War World: The View from the Middle East



Conclusion: The Impact of Returning Servicemen


Epilogue: The Perspective of Half a Century


Glossary


Bibliography


Index