Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918

by Richard S. Fogarty

Book Overview

Winner, 2009 Best First Book Prize, Phi Alpha Theta

During the First World War, the French army deployed more than 500,000 colonial subjects to European battlefields. The struggle against a common enemy associated these soldiers with the French nation, but racial and cultural differences left them on the outside. This study investigates French conceptions of race and national identity at the time as reflected in the attitudes and policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421407663
• ISBN13: 9781421407661
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"