The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924)
For a long time now it has been common understanding that Africa played only a marginal role in the First World War. Its reduced theatre of operations appeared irrelevant to the strategic balance of the major powers. This volume is a contribution to the growing body of historical literature that explores the global and social history of the First World War. It questions the supposedly marginal role of Africa during the Great War with a special focus on Northeast Africa. In fact, between 1911 a...
Note de l’éditeur
Cover image : Italian Motorized Border Patrol, Eastern Cyrenaica, 1916.
Courtesy of Col. Filippo Cappellano, Head of the Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito, Rome.
Éditeur : Centre français des études éthiopiennes
Lieu d’édition : Addis-Abeba
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 8 octobre 2018
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-2378-6
DOI : 10.4000/books.cfee.1024
Collection : Corne de l’Afrique contemporaine / Contemporary Horn of Africa | 6
Année d’édition : 2018
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-87587-070-4
Shiferaw Bekele, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, Alessandro Volterra et al.
IntroductionInternational and Regional Politics/Developments
Patrick Gilkes et Martin Plaut
Great War Intrigues in the Horn of AfricaAnne-Claire de Gayffier-Bonneville
Aftershocks of the First World War in the Nile ValleyElena Vezzadini
Transnationalism from Below after the First World War: The Case of the 1924 Revolution in Anglo-Egyptian SudanJakob Zollmann
Ethiopia, International Law and the First World War. Considerations of Neutrality and Foreign Policy by the European Powers, 1840-1919Colonial Policies
Andrea Ungari
Why did the Italians go to Libya?Alessandro Volterra
Askaris and the Great War. Colonial Troops Recruited in Libya for the War but Never Sent to the Austrian FrontMassimo Zaccaria
Feeding the War: Canned Meat Production in the Horn of Africa and the Italian FrontLocal Agencies and the War
Rémi Dewière et Vincent Hiribarren
“Our delight is for the amir of the English”: a Bornoan history of the First World War (North-Eastern Nigeria)Juliette Honvault
World War I and the Perspective of a Hashemite Order in Yemen. Study of the Chronicle of Ismā‛īl b. Muḥammad al-Washalī
For a long time now it has been common understanding that Africa played only a marginal role in the First World War. Its reduced theatre of operations appeared irrelevant to the strategic balance of the major powers. This volume is a contribution to the growing body of historical literature that explores the global and social history of the First World War. It questions the supposedly marginal role of Africa during the Great War with a special focus on Northeast Africa. In fact, between 1911 and 1924 a series of influential political and social upheavals took place in the vast expanse between Tripoli and Addis Ababa. The First World War was to profoundly change the local balance of power.
This volume consists of fifteen chapters divided into three sections. The essays examine the social, political and operational course of the war and assess its consequences in a region straddling Africa and the Middle East. The relationship between local events and global processes is explored, together with the regional protagonists and their agency. Contrary to the myth still prevailing, the First World War did have both immediate and long-term effects on the region. This book highlights some of the significant aspects associated with it.
Shiferaw Bekele is Professor Emeritus of Ethiopian History at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
ORCID : 0000-0001-7728-3377
Uoldelul Chelati Dirar is Associate Professor of African History at the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, della Comunicazione e delle Relazioni Internazionali, Università di Macerata, Italy.
Alessandro Volterra is Associate Professor of African History at the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy.
Massimo Zaccaria is Associate Professor of African History at the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Pavia University, Italy.
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