African Rank-And-File by Timothy Parsons (1999, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHeinemann

ISBN-100325001405

ISBN-139780325001401

eBay Product ID (ePID)208890

Product Key Features

Number of Pages328 Pages

Publication NameAfrican Rank-And-File

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAfrica / General, General

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

AuthorTimothy Parsons

Subject AreaEducation, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-025009

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal355.3/51/09676

Table Of ContentContents: Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction The King's African Rifles Recruiting and the Doctrine of "Martial Race" Military Life Army Women and Military Families Discipline and Resistance Ex-Servicemen Epilogue Appendix A: The Organization of the KAR Appendix B: Interviews Appendix C: Currency and Comparative Values Selected Bibliography

SynopsisPaper Edition. The African Rank-and-File explores why East Africans in the King's African Rifles (KAR) served a foreign power, which denied them the rights of full citizenship and was at best paternalistic and at worst openly oppressive., The African Rank-and-File explores why East Africans in the King's African Rifles (KAR) served a foreign power, which denied them the rights of full citizenship and was at best paternalistic and at worst openly oppressive. The KAR was a viable institution because it advanced, to varying degrees, the interests of the colonial state, the British military establishment, and African soldiers. These interests were quite often contradictory, and it took an ongoing process of negotiation and accommodation over the social status of the African soldiery to make the KAR work. Tensions such as these were not unique to the colonial military; the co-option of Africans as chiefs, policemen, teachers, and clergymen produced similar points of friction. Like other important intermediary classes, African soldiers performed a vital service for the colonial regime and sought to exploit its inherent weaknesses to enhance their position in colonial society. Their ability to do so exposed some of the most fundamental tensions and contradictions of British colonial rule.

LC Classification NumberUA855