| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: decolonizing the soldier -- Part I. Colonial soldiers -- Making colonial soldiers in British India -- Unmaking an imperial army -- Politics and prisoners in the Indian Army -- Part II. Going to war -- Defeat, drill, and discipline -- Ritual, solidarity, and sacrifice -- Battle -- Part III. History and theory -- The experience and representation of combat -- Cosmopolitan military histories and sociologies |
| Summary |
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War, especially the British Indian army in the Burma campaign. Going beyond conventional narratives, Barkawi studies soldiers in transnational context, from recruitment and training to combat and memory. Drawing on history, sociology and anthropology, the book critiques the 'Western way of war' from a postcolonial perspective. Barkawi reconceives soldiers as cosmopolitan, their battles irreducible to the national histories that monopolise them. This book will appeal to those interested in the Second World War, armed forces and the British Empire, and students and scholars of military sociology and history, South Asian studies and international relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. British Indian Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Army. British Indian Army fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, East Indian
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Sociology, Military -- India -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma.
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Military campaigns
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Sociology, Military
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Armee
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Burma
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India
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Großbritannien
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Indien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316718612 |
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1316718611 |
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