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Munholland, J. Kim. "Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia (review)." Journal of Military History 70, no. 4 (2006): 1151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jmh.2006.0263.

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Gewald, Jan-Bart. "Mbadamassi of Lagos: A Soldier for King and Kaiser, and a Deportee to German South West Africa." African Diaspora 2, no. 1 (2009): 103–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187254609x433369.

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Abstract In 1915 troops of the South African Union Defence Force invaded German South West Africa, present day Namibia. In the north of the territory the South African forces captured an African soldier serving in the German army named Mbadamassi. Upon his capture Mbadamassi demanded to be released and claimed that he was a British national from Nigeria. In addition, he stated that he had served in the West African Frontier Force, and that he had been shanghaied into German military service in Cameroon. Furthermore, whilst serving in the German army in Cameroon, Mbadamassi claimed that he had

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Guite, Jangkhomang. "Remembering Second World War: Memory, Politics and Deception." Journal of North East India Studies 5, no. 1 (2015): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12779037.

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This paper concerns with the politics of remembering IIWW in Manipur. It will be observed that commemorating the IIWW in Manipur took at least three turns, all competing and contesting for dominance or recognition. First, the colonial state remembered its soldiers and officers in some War Cemeteries in the region silencing the role of local people. Second, after India’s independence these colonial monuments have been silenced and instead remembrance is now given to those soldiers and officers who fought the colonial armies such as the INA soldiers who immediately assumed status of patrio

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Molodiakov, Vassili E. "EDMOND PLAUCHUT — FRENCH APOLOGIST OF THE JAPANESE COLONIAL EXPANSION." Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, no. 3 (21) (2022): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2618-7302-2022-3-023-028.

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One of the first descriptions of the Japanese military intervention in Taiwan in 1874 for the Western reader was an essay by the French writer Edmond Plauchut (1824–1909), published in November 1874 in the influential magazine Revue des Deux Mondes and a year later published in Russian translation in the St. Petersburg magazine Zhivopisnoe Obozrenie. If its text is known to researchers, then Plauchut’s biography and the reasons for his interest to the events in the Far East have remained unknown to the Russian reader until now. Using the memoirs and the only biography of Plauchut the author gi

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Luffin, Xavier. "Senegalese, Gurkha, Sikh . . . : The French and British Colonial Troops in the Eyes of the Arab Writers." Arabica 60, no. 6 (2013): 762–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341283.

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Abstract The former great European colonial empires had incorporated soldiers recruited in their colonies into their armies. Several Arab authors from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Morocco remember them through their novels and short stories, giving us an interesting perception of the “Other”: strangers brought into the Arab world by other strangers. They also represent different negative faces of the colonial period: the exploitation of the indigenous population, the dilemma of Muslims forced to fight their brothers . . .

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Morrison, Alexander. "Camels and Colonial Armies: The Logistics of Warfare in Central Asia in the Early 19th Century." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 57, no. 4 (2014): 443–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341355.

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This article explores the use of camels for baggage transport by European colonial armies in the nineteenth century. It focuses in particular on two episodes: the Russian winter expedition to Khiva, and the march of the Army of the Indus into Afghanistan, both of which took place in 1839. However sophisticated their weapons and other technology, until at least the 1880s European colonial armies were forced to rely exclusively on baggage animals if they wanted to move around: railways arrived very late in the history of European expansion. In Central Asia this meant rounding up, loading, managi

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VARTAVARIAN, MESROB. "Pacification and Patronage in the Maratha Deccan, 1803–1818." Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 6 (2016): 1749–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x16000044.

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AbstractThis article examines pacification operations conducted by British colonial armies throughout the Maratha Deccan from 1803 to 1818. The East India Company assembled concentrations of coercive force by extending patronage to loyalist elites and mobile war bands. Military contingents from allied princely states were mobilized and combined with a policy of brokerage intended to demobilize hostile forces holed up in forts or engaged in brigandage. Pacification through a mixture of negotiations and force ensured loyalist groups a privileged place in the emerging colonial order.

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Moss, Tristan. "‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’ soldiers: Race and Papua New Guinean soldiers in the Australian Army, 1940–60." War in History 29, no. 2 (2022): 467–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09683445211000375.

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This article examines the most militarily important indigenous units formed by Australia, arguing that racially based assumptions played a central role in how Papua New Guinean soldiers were conceptualized and used by the Australian Army during the 1940s and 1950s. Equally, while the perception of Papua New Guinean soldiers was heavily racialized, there was no construction of a martial race myth by Australians, in contrast to many colonial armies. Instead, Australia reluctantly recruited Papua New Guineans as a form of cheap manpower familiar with local conditions and saw them as simple soldie

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Schraeder, Peter J. "From Berlin 1884 to 1989: Foreign Assistance and French, American, and Japanese Competition in Francophone Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies 33, no. 4 (1995): 539–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00021431.

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In October1884, the major European colonial powers of the era were invited to a conference in Berlin by the German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck.1The United States also attended the proceedings as an observer nation, and its representative, John A. Kasson, signed the Berlin Convention, one of the primary purposes of which was to regulate escalating imperial conflict by officially delineating the territorial boundaries of colonial possessions. Although warfare between colonial armies in Africa during World War I underscored the failure of negotiators to avoid yet another global military conflic

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Barany, Zoltan. "How Post-colonial Armies Came About: Comparative Perspectives from Asia and Africa." Journal of Asian and African Studies 49, no. 5 (2013): 597–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909613507229.

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Alexopoulou, Kleoniki, and Eowout Frankema. "Imperialism of jackals and lions. The fiscal-military state in Portuguese Africa in the British and French African mirror, c. 1850–1940." Revista de Historia Industrial — Industrial History Review 33, no. 92 (2024): 119–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/rhiihr.44736.

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We adopt the metaphor of the “jackal” and the “lion” to explore whether variation in geo-political power of metropoles affected fiscal and military capacity building in colonial Africa. Zooming in on Portuguese Africa, we hypothesize that indigenous taxpayers in Angola and Mozambique were forced to invest more in order, security and their own subjugation, as Portugal lacked the wealth, the scale economies, the imperial cross-subsidies and the means of credible deterrence underpinning British and French imperial security policies. We show that military and police force expenditures extracted la

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FitzSimons, William. "Sizing Up the “Small Wars” of African Empire." Journal of African Military History 2, no. 1 (2018): 63–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00201005.

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Abstract This short essay makes the case that the theories and practices employed by European armies during the “small wars” of nineteenth-century imperialism were military innovations produced within the distinctly modern and global context of colonial conquest. Colonial military experiences spurred new tactics and strategies which were captured in treatises written by British and French military theorists at the same time that they transformed the nature of warfare in colonized spaces—often with devastating effects. Military approaches developed in response to these “small wars” have importa

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Hamil, Mustapha. "MOHAMED ZAFZAF'S AL-MARءA WA-L-WARDA OR THE VOYAGE NORTH IN THE POSTCOLONIAL ERA". International Journal of Middle East Studies 38, № 3 (2006): 417–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743806412411.

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In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said considers the topos of the voyage North as one of the motifs in the “culture of resistance.” Traveling North is seen in this respect as a reversal of imperial and colonial history. When, for instance, Mustafa Saء ed in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North goes to England, his objective is to conquer—so he thinks—with his “penis” the country of his colonizer. The cultural encounter between Britain and the Arab–African nation of Sudan involves for Saءed a configuration of power in which the West is imagined as a woman to be raped in the same way

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Remli, Fahim, and Rafik Boubchiche. "Private Security and Military Companies in the African Continent: "A Study on the Justifications for Presence and Areas of Concentration." Journal of Science and Knowledge Horizons 4, no. 02 (2024): 676–88. https://doi.org/10.34118/jskp.v4i02.4069.

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The complex security conditions experienced by African countries during the colonial period and after independence, have led to an urgent need for new mechanisms to address gaps that local armies and security institutions have failed to manage. Most African countries have become unable to achieve their primary goal of survival and security, which has led them to rely on private security and military companies. These companies have taken on the task of providing military, logistical, and operational support to national armies, as well as other functions primarily related to protecting geo-strat

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GREEN, NILE. "Jack Sepoy and the Dervishes: Islam and the Indian Soldier in Princely India." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 18, no. 1 (2008): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186307007766.

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Like other Britons in colonial India, Sir William Sleeman had a poor opinion of the traditional holy men who still formed an important part of Indian society in the nineteenth century. Reflecting his writings on the suppression of the Thugs that would make him famous, Sleeman declared that, “There is hardly any species of crime that is not throughout India perpetrated by men in the disguise of these religious mendicants; and almost all such mendicants are really men in disguise”.1 None of these holy men were considered more dubious – more superstitious and reactionary – than the dervishes and

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Kerr, Ian J. "Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India, 1819–1835." History: Reviews of New Books 24, no. 3 (1996): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1996.9951327.

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Irfaan, Santosa. "Institusionalisasi Ajaran Tasawuf dalam Gerakan Tarekat." TAJDID 25, no. 1 (2018): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.36667/tajdid.v25i1.346.

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This article examines the process of institutionalizing Sufism into a movement or organization of tarekat. Through a study of relevant literature, it was found that the tarekat (tharîqah) as a part of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) has developed since the 13th century, not long after the Mongolian armies conquered and destroyed Baghdad, Iraq. In its history, there have been internal excessive behaviours among the followers. Fortunately, tharîqah in some places and periods has encouraged people to be more or less innovators in struggling to fight the colonial power embracing different religions and

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Mallam, Ibrahim. "British Destruction of Sylvan and Cash Crop Industries in Southern Kaduna-Nigeria, 1900-1960." NIU Journal of Social Sciences 9, no. 4 (2023): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.58709/niujss.v9i4.1761.

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From the onset, British colonialists divided the Northern Nigeria protectorate into a number of economic spheres. These include the export crops producing areas, such as Kano, Sokoto, Katsina, and northern parts of Zaria province. Mineral producing areas were Plateau, Bauchi, etc. Livestock producing areas for hides and skins were such provinces like Borno, Sokoto and Kano. While food and labour reserves stretched to encompass areas such as Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna and Niger. These were to serve the colonial infrastructure in building roads, bridges, railway, and towns (like Kaduna). Th

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Welsch, Christina. "Military Mobility, Authority and Negotiation in Early Colonial India*." Past & Present 249, no. 1 (2020): 53–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz067.

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Abstract This article focuses on the career of Muhammad Yusuf Khan, an officer in the British East India Company who sought to turn his military service into political and diplomatic authority, only to be executed as a rebel in 1764. His rise and fall occurred early in the so-called colonial transition, a period characterized in recent scholarship as one of relative fluidity in contrast to later, more rigid instantiations of colonial rule. Institutionally, the Company’s armies seem to contradict that pattern: their rapid growth in the eighteenth century produced new exclusions and restrictions

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de Moor, J. A. "III. Contrasting Communities: Asian Soldiers of the Dutch and British Colonial Armies in the Nineteenth Century." Itinerario 11, no. 1 (1987): 35–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300009372.

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The Asian soldier in the service of the European trading companies of the Ancien Régime or of the more modern colonial governments has a long history and is a phenomenon which displays some fundamental contradictions. Ever since the Europeans came to the Americas, Asia or Africa, they employed large groups of the indigenes as soldiers, men of many different customs, languages and cultures. By the thousands, inhabitants of the country filled the ranks which European recruiting was unwilling or unable to furnish.

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Mangalala, Brel GrÃ¢ce. "Kwame Nkrumah's Vision for African Unity: A Protection against any Colonial Policy in Africa." Summer 2023 VIII, no. III (2023): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2023(viii-iii).01.

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The present study investigates Kwame Nkrumah’s Pan-African visionfor African unity. Through a historical perspective, the study reveals that Nkrumah insisted that the advantage of having aunified military will be to assure our own security, defense and to achieve freedom for every part of Africa. It is also one of the ways to eliminate European military presence and standing armies in our countries, as well as to eradicate the imperialist forces which are engineering our division and seeking to make Africa a war-ground of contending interest. Nkrumah also believed that the “world peace is not

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Patton, Thomas. "Buddhist Salvation Armies as Vanguards of the Sāsana: Sorcerer Societies in Twentieth-Century Burma." Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 4 (2016): 1083–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911816001157.

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Since the early twentieth century, groups of Burmese Buddhist sorcerers and their followers have taken on the duty of guarding the Buddha's sāsana from colonial, ideological, and Islamic threats. Sāsana (broadly, the teachings of the Buddha and the institutions and practices that support them) and how it should be sustained in the face of its inevitable demise have been central concerns of these societies, expressed in both their textual and oral representations. To illustrate this tension between endurance and change, this article explores ideas of the life cycle of the sāsana and how ideas a

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Zaccaria, Massimo. "In Search of Soldiers: Yemen as a Military Recruiting Ground for the Italian Colonial Army, 1903–1918." Northeast African Studies 22, no. 1 (2022): 11–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.22.1.0011.

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Abstract When faced with the problem of setting up their colonial troops in Somalia, the Italians adopted a rigid quota system. According to the Regulations of the Royal Colonial Corps of Somalia of 1906, only 10 percent of the available positions were reserved for Somalis. Another 20 percent of the troops was reserved for “people of other races,” whereas the remaining 70 percent had to be made up of “Arab” soldiers from Yemen and the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. When other colonial armies, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were unable to reach such percentages, they filled

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Zhang, SJ. "“Not Altogether Ridiculous”." Representations 155, no. 1 (2021): 29–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2021.155.2.29.

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Spanning a long literary history, from 1742 to 1934, this essay argues for the military epaulette as an important material signifier through which the arbitrary nature of rank and colonial authority was revealed and challenged. This essay connects the anxieties attending the introduction of epaulettes in newly nationalized European armies to the historical and rhetorical impact of such uniforms on depictions of so-called Black chiefs, including Toussaint Louverture, Lamour Derance, and Nat Turner. In the context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century slave revolts and imperial and colonia

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Mostefaoui, Aziz. "The Political and Economic Impacts of WWII on the Gold Coast of West Africa." Langues & Cultures 2, no. 01 (2021): 170–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.62339/jlc.v2i01.126.

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La Seconde Guerre mondiale a éclaté en septembre 1939, a duré six ans et a coûté des millions de vies. Bien que l'Europe ait été le principal champ de bataille de la guerre, l'Afrique a été impliquée dans les hostilités à travers la participation de milliers de soldats africains aux combats, dans différentes parties du monde. En effet, la Seconde Guerre mondiale a créé un besoin pour l'engagement des armées coloniales à se battre pour la Grande-Bretagne, surtout après l'avancée du nazisme allemand et du fascisme italien en Europe.Cet article examine les circonstances qui ont conduit la Grande-

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CHARTERS, ERICA. "THE CARING FISCAL-MILITARY STATE DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, 1756–1763." Historical Journal 52, no. 4 (2009): 921–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x09990306.

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ABSTRACTThis article re-examines the concept of the fiscal-military state in the context of the British armed forces during the Seven Years War (1756–63). This war, characteristic of British warfare during the eighteenth century, demonstrates that British victory depended on the state caring about the wellbeing of its troops, as well as being perceived to care. At the practical level, disease among troops led to manpower shortages and hence likely defeat, especially during sieges and colonial campaigns. During the 1762–3 Portuguese campaign, disease was regarded as a sign of ill-discipline, an

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Rigney, Ann. "Remaking memory and the agency of the aesthetic." Memory Studies 14, no. 1 (2021): 10–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698020976456.

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This article examines the role of the creative arts in renegotiating the border between memorable and unmemorable lives. It does so with specific reference to the (un)forgetting of the colonial soldiers in European armies during World War One. Focussing on the role of aesthetic form in generating memorability, it shows how the creative use of a medium can help redefine the borders of imagined communities by commanding the attention of individual subjects and hence providing conditions for a cognitive and affective opening to the memory of strangers. It concludes that future studies of transfor

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Killingray, David. "African voices from two world wars." Historical Research 74, no. 186 (2001): 425–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.00136.

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Abstract Hundreds of thousands of African soldiers and labourers served in colonial armies during the two World Wars. Most were non-literate and there are relatively few first-hand records of their experiences. Using oral evidence, soldiers' letters and official reports, this article allows the African voice to describe the role of individual men as they enlisted, or were conscripted; the period of initial training; the encounter with new forms of clothing, food and the artefacts of the modern world; travel overseas by ship to the war theatre; the face of battle; leave in foreign cities; and t

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Al Tuma, Ali. "Franco's Moroccans." Contemporary European History 29, no. 3 (2020): 282–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777320000284.

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Recent research into the Moroccan troops who fought in the Spanish Civil War has both drawn from and contributed to insights gained from new historiographical developments in the field of the Spanish conflict as well as other European twentieth-century conflicts. Studies examining the experiences and choices of low-level participants of the war, whether soldiers or civilians – on both the Francoist and republican sides – have increasingly shown that they were players in possession of a certain degree of agency, however limited. That agency allowed these low-level players, whether Spanish or Mo

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Neemani, Elad. "ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES MANPOWER IN ITS EARLY YEARS: FROM SOCIAL COHESION TO A STRATEGIC RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CRISIS." CONTEMPORARY MILITARY CHALLENGES, VOLUME 2018, ISSUE 20/2 (June 15, 2018): 113–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33179/bsv.99.svi.11.cmc.20.2.6.

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Povzetek Članek obravnava razvoj krize zaposlovanja v izraelskih obrambnih silah med izraelsko vojno za neodvisnost in v zgodnjih letih države. Njegov namen je razširiti razumevanje organizacijskih in družbenih problemov izraelskih obrambnih sil, tako da jih opredeli kot razširjeno postkolonialno strateško krizo. Nedavne raziskave so se osredotočile na tisti deli problema, ki zadeva predvsem teme, povezane s področjem delovanja. V članku želimo raziskave razširiti še z opisom glavnih značilnosti in meja krize. Z razumevanjem izraelskega primera se bo okrepilo naše poznavanje načina oblikovanja

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Spaulding, Jay. "The Old Shaiqi Language in Historical Perspective." History in Africa 17 (January 1990): 283–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171817.

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The Shaiqiya are the northernmost Arabic-speaking community of the modern riverain Sudan, residing in the Nile bend below the Fourth Cataract as far as the borders of Nubian-speaking Dongola. Independent confirmation of the existence of the Shaiqiya under that name can be found in European sources of the sixteenth century, while charters, chronicles, saints' lives, and orally-preserved traditions allude to their participation in the political and cultural life of the wider kingdom of Sinnar, of which they formed a part. In November 1820 the Shaiqiya made one of their most dramatic contribution

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Subba, Phanindra. "Sources of Nepali Army’s military effectiveness during the Anglo-Nepal War." Unity Journal 1 (February 1, 2020): 114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/unityj.v1i0.35701.

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Military effectiveness is the process by which the military converts available material and political resources into military power. The organizational revolution that took place in Europe during the period, 1500- 1700, multiplied the military effectiveness of the European states. This paper, however, aims to assess the military effectiveness of the Nepalese Army during the Anglo- Nepal War, 1814-16, in the context of the failure of many of the armies of South Asia to mount an effective resistance against the colonial onslaught. Further, it explores the sources of the Nepali Army’s effectivene

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Charney, Michael. "A REASSESSMENT OF HYPERBOLIC MILITARY STATISTICS IN SOME EARLY MODERN BURMESE TEXTS." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 46, no. 2 (2003): 193–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852003321675745.

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AbstractScholarly literature has not taken Burmese accounts of warfare seriously. Colonial historians viewed statistics in these sources as fanciful, exaggerated, and unreliable. Later scholars, both indigenous and western, have followed suit. They judge the chronicle accounts of Burmese warfare solely on the merits of the "objective" data. Much of this valuable material thus remains untouched or unconsidered in the secondary literature. This article suggests alternative ways in which the indigenous warfare accounts can be read. Lists of armies and numbers of soldiers convey significant subjec

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Lidchi, Henrietta. "Reappraising Expropriations." Museum Worlds 10, no. 1 (2022): 170–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2022.100113.

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The attack on Benin City by British forces in 1897 has evolved into a symbol in the twenty-first century of the contested legacy of taking in military colonial conflicts. This revolves around questions of legitimacy of retention and, in a more focused manner, on the question of military looting. A number of scholars have written about the looting activities of British and other European forces concerning Yuanmingyuan (Tythacott 2018), Tibet (Carrington 2003; Harris 2012), and Benin City (Bodenstein 2018, 2020/1, 2022; Eyo 1997; Hicks 2020; Igbare 1970, 2007; Lundén 2016; Plankensteiner 2007; R

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Mourin, Samuel. "Le nerf de la guerre. Finances et métissage des expéditions françaises de la première guerre des Renards (1715–1716)." French Colonial History 12 (May 1, 2011): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41938210.

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Abstract Financing is one of the three main problems encountered by armies, together with supply and recruitment. When funds are insufficient, as they often are, it may be necessary to find alternative financial, tactical, and technical expedients in order to continue waging war. Such was the case in New France, where financial constraints were particularly acute during the campaigns against Amerindians. Indeed, during the Fox Wars of the early eighteenth century, the shortage of funds was so severe as to impact directly the nature of military operations. This article examines the expeditions

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Harwich, Nikita. "Barcelona beyond the Seas. A Catalan Enclave in Colonial Venezuela." European Review 25, no. 1 (2016): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798716000326.

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The town of Barcelona in Venezuela, with a present population of nearly half a million inhabitants, is – by far – the most important New World settlement bearing the name of Catalonia’s capital. It owes its name to its founder, Joan Orpí i del Pou, also known as Juan de Orpín or Urpín (Piera, 1593 – Barcelona, Venezuela, 1645), who managed to distinguish himself as one of the last conquistadors within the territory of present-day Venezuela. This was no easy task since a Catalan was, technically, not allowed to reside or even to travel to lands under the exclusive control of the Crown of Castil

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Anil, Lakshmi. "Two Armies on a Colour (less) Plain: Tracing the Cultural Narratives of Amar Chitra Katha as a Colonial Embodiment." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8, no. 3 (2023): 444–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.83.66.

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Despite a growing body of research on the media landscape in postcolonial India, Indian children’s media culture continues to be underrepresented in the field of history and popular culture. The world of comics and graphic novels shapes not just the minds of individuals but also the collective consciousness of communities and their unsung histories. Amar Chitra Katha has been an important cultural institution that has played a significant role in defining, for several generations of Indian readers on what it means to be an Indian. The paper seeks to address the politics of representation and t

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Franqui-Rivera, Harry. "National Mythologies: U.S. Citizenship for the People of Puerto Rico and Military Service." Memorias 21 (May 12, 2022): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.21.564.122.

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That Puerto Ricans became American citizens in 1917 have been attributed by many to the need for soldiers as the U.S. entered the First World War. Such belief has been enshrined in Puerto Rican popular national mythology. While there is a rich body of literature surrounding the decision to extend U.S. citizenship to Puerto Rico and its effect on the Puerto Ricans, few, if any, challenge the assumption that the need for manpower for the armies of the metropolis influenced that decision. Reducing the issue of citizenship to a need for manpower for the military o nly o b s c ures c o mp lex imp e

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Chadya*, Joyce M. "Voting with their Feet: Women’s Flight to Harare during Zimbabwe’s Liberation War1." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18, no. 2 (2008): 24–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/018222ar.

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Abstract This paper explores the experiences of Zimbabwean rural women forced to relocate to the city of Harare during the liberation war in the 1970s. Women found themselves squeezed between a repressive colonial government and coercive guerrilla armies. The accompanying war-induced violence from both sides of the combattants led to massive displacements as women and their families fled from the war-torn areas to urban centres like Harare. Within women’s stories of flight are reflections of gender relations in a war fought largely in the rural areas where women were the majority of the dwelle

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Fatah-Black, Karwan. "Orangism, Patriotism, and Slavery in Curaçao, 1795–1796." International Review of Social History 58, S21 (2013): 35–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859013000473.

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AbstractThe defeat of the Dutch armies by the French and the founding of the Batavian Republic in 1795 created confusion in the colonies and on overseas naval vessels about who was in power. The Stadtholder fled to England and ordered troops and colonial governments to surrender to the British, while the Batavian government demanded that they abjure the oath to the Stadtholder. The ensuing confusion gave those on board Dutch naval vessels overseas, and in its colonies, an opportunity to be actively involved in deciding which side they wished to be on. This article adds the mutinies on board th

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Scheianu, Adrian. "Historical Considerations Regarding the Creation of the Cuban National Identity." Acta Marisiensis. Seria Historia 1, no. 1 (2019): 98–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/amsh-2020-0007.

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Abstract Although the revolutionary outbreak of the Spanish colonies in the Americas was sudden and apparently unplanned it was, in fact, a long process, during which colonial economies underwent growth, societies developed identities, ideas advanced to new positions and Spanish Americans began conscious of their own culture and jealous of their own resources. In Cuba the process of creating a national identity displays similarities with what happened in the former European colonies from the two Americas, turned into independent states but, on the other hand, shows different characteristics th

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Dutta, Manas. "Exploring the Dynamics of Social Composition and Recruitment Procedures of Madras Army, 1807–61." History and Sociology of South Asia 11, no. 1 (2016): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2230807516666121.

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In recent years, there has been a proliferation of research on the history of the colonial armies in South Asia in general and the Madras Presidency in particular. This has been further accentuated with the emergence of the new military history that explicates the social composition and the diverse recruitment procedures of the Madras Army, hitherto unexplored under the East India Company around the first half of the nineteenth century in India. In fact, the very concept of raising an army battalion in the subcontinent underwent change to meet the potential challenges of the other European aut

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Echeverri, Marcela. "Popular Royalists, Empire, and Politics in Southwestern New Granada, 1809 – 1819." Hispanic American Historical Review 91, no. 2 (2011): 237–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1165208.

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Abstract This article examines the royalist forces that rose in defense of the colonial order in the southwestern region of New Granada, Colombia, a royalist stronghold where slaves and local Indians united with Spanish forces to fight against independence armies. Enslaved blacks and Indians were perceived by royalist elites as valuable allies, and for that reason elites were willing to negotiate and offer concessions to secure their loyalty. I describe the complex negotiations with Indians in terms of tribute payment, and with slaves over freedom, that have been left completely out of an inde

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ROY, KAUSHIK. "Discipline and Morale of the African, British and Indian Army units in Burma and India during World War II: July 1943 to August 1945." Modern Asian Studies 44, no. 6 (2010): 1255–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x1000003x.

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AbstractTowards the end of World War II, the morale of British units stationed in Burma and India was on a downslide. In contrast, the morale of Indian units was quite high. In fact, after the 1943 Arakan Campaign, the morale of Indian units rose slowly but steadily. The morale and discipline of Indian troops are also compared and contrasted with another colonial army: the African troops. By making a comparative study of the Commonwealth troops deployed in Burma and India, this paper attempts to show how and why the contours of morale and discipline changed among the various groups of troops a

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Hunt, Sylvia J. "The Making of New World Slavery." American Journal of Islam and Society 16, no. 3 (1999): 129–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v16i3.2110.

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Robin Blackburn's mighty tome talces readers on a historical journey throughthree hundred years of colonial slavery in the New World. As one travels throughEurope, Africa, and the Americas, one meets a wide range of characters: slaves,slave traders, merchants, seamen, national navies and armies, free and indenturedlaborers, planters, national leaders, and government officials, all of whom have apart to play that is duly examined by the author. The author has drawn on a verywide variety of sow-ces: American, British, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese,and Latin texts, ranging from the texts of

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Abokyi, Samuel Nana, Tigwe Salifu Jebuni, and Edward Salifu Mahama. "Anthropological Study of Indigenous Weapon Production Among the Anufor of Northern Ghana." European Journal of Development Studies 4, no. 3 (2024): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejdevelop.2024.4.3.347.

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Weapon production and warfare are unavoidably linked, as the former is needed to prosecute the latter. It was essential for the protection of the ego and image of a group, and this urge was strong enough to plunge states into endless warfare. During pre-colonial times, West African states like the Dagomba, Gonja, Mamprusi, and allies, including the Anufor, were preoccupied with wars of expansion and consolidation of acquired territories. In most cases, these wars involved the seizure of territories, as the ownership of territories showed the extent of one’s power and influence. Several traditi

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Romine, Jennifer. "How Did Geography Affect the Haitian Revolution?" Perceptions 4, no. 2 (2018): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.15367/pj.v4i2.108.

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This paper concerns Haiti’s geography and how it affected the Haitian Revolution. Its aims involve detailing the geography (especially human and physical) of colonial Saint-Domingue at the end of the Eighteenth Century and investigating the impact of that geography on the Haitian Revolution. The study focuses chiefly on primary sources from France, Saint-Domingue, and the United States in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries and uses them to narrate the relationship of the Haitian revolutionaries to the geography of their country. It paints a picture of colonial Saint-Domingue as

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Pahuja, Sundhya. "Technologies of Empire: IMF Conditionality and the Reinscription of the North/South Divide." Leiden Journal of International Law 13, no. 4 (2000): 749–813. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156500000479.

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This article seeks to complicate conventional understandings of the way in which IMF conditionality operates in relation to North/South relations. It begins with a genealogy of how the Fund became involved in lending to the South and argues that the Fund was transformed from an essentially monetary institution concerned with the industrialised states to a surveillance organisation directed at providing information about the South to the North. The article then explores what discursive functions the Fund might be performing in the context of the relationship between North and South. In this reg

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Mustainah, Hayati. "MEMPERKENALKAN SEJARAH PAHLAWAN NASIONAL ZAENUL ARIFIN BAGI PESERTA DIDIK MI/SD DI INDONESIA." As-Sibyan 3, no. 1 (2020): 36–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.52484/as_sibyan.v3i1.167.

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Merdeka is a word that has been eagerly awaited by the Indonesian people especially during the colonial period. Where the Indonesian people were completely colonized by the Netherlands, Japan, and England, even forced labor forced to seize all the spices and other natural resources in Indonesia. To the Japanese occupation masses, the Japanese emphasized and also urged the army of God (Hizbual Warriors) to give their independence to Japan, but the Hizbual Warriors immediately changed their minds and also formed new warriors. The new Laskar-laskar were taken by five santri from various boarding

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Malkin, Stanislav Gennad’evich, and Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Nesterov. "Colonial experience and the theory of counter-guerrilla warfare in the USA: a symposium of RAND, April 16-20, 1962 as a historic source." Samara Journal of Science 6, no. 4 (2017): 184–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/snv201764215.

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This paper analyzes the materials of the symposium held by the RAND Corporation from 16 to 20 April 1962. Its purpose was to generalize the experience of past combat conflicts, which could contribute to an effective fight against insurgents in future conflicts. Twelve military officers of the armies of the United States, Britain, France and Australia participated in this symposium. All of them took part in counter-guerrilla operations around the world - Algeria, China, Greece, Kenya, Laos, Malaya, Oman, South Vietnam and the Philippines. Their rich experience formed the basis of this symposium

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