No Insignificant Part : The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War.
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War is the first history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Recruited from the migrant labour network, most African soldiers in the RNR were ori...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Terms
- Introduction
- 1. Setting the Stage: Colonialism and Zimbabwe: The First World War and Africa
- 2. Africans in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the First World War
- 3. Soldiers in the Rhodesia Native Regiment: Their Profile and Daily Life
- 4. The Road to Songea
- 5. The Sieges of Malangali and Songea
- 6. The Siege of Kitanda
- 7. Disaster at St. Moritz
- 8. Mpepo: The Place of Winds
- 9. Portuguese East Africa
- 10. Demobilization and Life after the War
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Short Biographies of Some African RNR Soldiers
- Notes
- notes to introduction
- notes to chapter 1
- notes to chapter 2
- notes to chapter 3
- notes to chapter 4
- notes to chapter 5
- notes to chapter 6
- notes to chapter 7
- notes to chapter 8
- notes to chapter 9
- notes to chapter 10
- notes to conclusion and appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.