Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 PDF
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COLONIAL CONSCRIPTS The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 SOCIAL HISTORY OF AFRICA SERIES EDITORS: ALLEN ISAACMAN AND LUISE WHITE Social History ofAfrica COLONIAL CONSCRIPTS Social History ofAfrica Series Editors: Allen Isaacman and Luise White BelindaBozzoli (with the assistance ofMmantho Nkotsoe) Women ofPhokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983 (forthcoming) MyronEchenberg Colonial Conscripts: TheTirailleurs Senegalais in French WestAfrica, 1857-1960 KristinMannandRichardRoberts (editors) Law in ColonialAfrica (forthcoming) COLONIAL CONSCRIPTS The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 Myron Echenberg McGill University HEINEMANN JAMES CURREY Portsmouth, NH London . HeinemannEducationalBooks,Inc. JamesCurreyLtd 361HanoverStreet Portsmouth, NH03801-3959 54bThornhillSquare, Islington Officesandagentsthroughouttheworld LondonNl 1BE ©1991byMyronEchenberg.Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced inanyformorbyelectronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandre- trievalsystems,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher, exceptbyareviewer, whomayquotebriefpassagesinareview. Firstpublished1991. Creditsforreprintedmaterialareonp.xix. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Echenberg,Myron J. Colonialconscripts :theTirailleursSenegalaisinFrenchWest Africa, 1857-1960/MyronEchenberg. — p. cm. (SocialhistoryofAfricaseries) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. - ISBN0-435-08048-2. ISBN0-435-08052-0(pbk.) 1.France.Armee. Tirailleurssenegalais—History. 2. France. Armee—Colonialtroops—History—19thcentury. 3.France.Armee— Colonialtroops—History—20thcentury. 4.Africa,French-speaking West—Racerelations. 5.Africa, French-speakingWest—History, Military. I.Title. II. Series. UA703.T725E281991 355.3'59'0944-dc20 90-43157 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Echenberg,Myron Colonialconscripts:theTirailleursSenegalaisinFrench WestAfrica,1857-1960. (SocialhistoryofAfrica). 1.WestAfrica.Warfare,history I.TitleII.Series 355.020966 ISBN0-85255-651-9 ISBN0-85255-601-2pbk CoverdesignbyJennyGreenleaf Textdesignand prepressworkbyG&HSohoLtd. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica. 91 92 93 94 95 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my mother, Anne hinds Echenberg, and the memory ofmyfather, Leon Echenberg Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/colonialconscripOOeche CONTENTS Illustrations ix Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Caveats, SpellingConventions, andAbbreviations xv Credits xix 1 FourTirailleurArmies 1 2 SlavesintoSoldiers 7 3 The TirailleursSenegalaisandtheFirstWorldWar 25 4 MilitaryConscriptioninTheoryandPractice 47 5 ConsequencesofConscription: MilitaryMigration 70 6 "MortspourlaFrance": The TirailleursSenegalais andtheSecondWorldWar 87 7 TheNewArmy, 1945-1960 105 8 FrenchWestAfricanVeterans, 1945-1960 127 9 VeteransandFrenchWestAfricanPolitics, 1945-1960 146 10 Epilogue: CollectiveMemoryandtheAfricanMilitary 164 Appendix: QuestionnaireforEx-TirailleursSenegalais 171 Notes 175 • ANoteon Sources 213 Sources 217 Index 229 vn
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