5/3/2023 0 Comments Fascist upper volta flagColonial soldiers and postcolonial politics in Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Upper Volta, 1958-1973 (Riina Turtio) 10. Poppies, pensions, passports: the British Legion and transnational civil society action in decolonizing Hong Kong (Daniel Schumacher) Part Three: Decolonization and Development 9. ![]() "Warriors Again": Native American Vietnam Veterans in the Decolonization Movement, 1969-1973 (Matthias Voigt) 8. Enforcing Conformity: Race in the American Legion, 1940-1960 (Olivier Burtin) 7. South African Veterans and the Institutionalization of Apartheid in South Africa (Jonathan Fennell) 6. For Peace and Disarmament: Italian Disabled Ex-Servicemen and détente (Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre) Part Two: Race and Decolonization 5. The World Veterans Federation: Cold War politics and globalization (Ángel Alcalde) 4. The making and unmaking of the international anti-fascist resistance fighter (Václav Šmidrkal) 3. Spanning historical cases from the United States to Hong-Kong, from Europe to Southern Africa, from Algeria to Iran, the volume situates veterans within the turbulent international context since World War II. By examining how different veterans’ groups, movements and organizations challenged or sustained the Cold War, strived to prevent or to foster decolonization, and transcended or supported official memories of war, the volume characterizes veterans as largely independent and autonomous actors which interacted with societies and states in the making of our times. ![]() Cold War politics, racial conflict, decolonization, state-building, and the reshaping of war memory were phenomena in which former soldiers and ex-combatants were directly involved. This edited volume gathers contributions which show the veterans’ involvement in all the major historical processes shaping the world after World War II. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world there was a sizeable portion of population with direct war experience. This book examines war veterans’ history after 1945 from a global perspective.
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