Serving the empire in the Great War : the Cypriot Mule Corps, imperial loyalty and silenced memory /
This book contributes to the growing literature on the role of the British non-settler empire in the Great War by exploring the service of the Cypriot Mule Corps on the Salonica Front, and after the war in Constantinople.
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Loạt: | Studies in Imperialism online (Manchester, England)
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996457 |
Mục lục:
- Introduction
- 1. Historiography and theories
- 2. British Cyprus, 1878-1918: from backwater to bustling warbase
- 3. The formation of the Cypriot Mule Corps
- 4. Mule and muleteer recruitment: pushed or pulled?
- 5. Contracts, challenges, hardships and the 'liminal space'
- 6. Conditions for mules and muleteers
- 7. Muleteer behaviour during service
- 8. Veterans and their families after service
- 9. Remembering and forgetting the Cypriot Mule Corps
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index.