On the Edges of Whiteness : : Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War / / Jochen Lingelbach.
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex r...
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Lingelbach, Jochen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut On the Edges of Whiteness : Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War / Jochen Lingelbach. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (306 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. How the Poles Came to Africa -- Chapter 2. The Postwar Refugee Regime and the Imperial Order of Things -- Chapter 3. Comparing Colonialisms in Africa and Poland -- Chapter 4. ‘An Incredible Pool of Femininity’: Gendering the Refugees -- Chapter 5. Polish Refugees as Part of Colonial Society -- Conclusion. On the Edges of Whiteness -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Polish people Africa, East. Polish people Africa, Southern. World War, 1939-1945 Deportations from Poland. World War, 1939-1945 Refugees Africa, East. World War, 1939-1945 Refugees Africa, Southern. World War, 1939-1945 Refugees Poland. HISTORY / Military / World War II. bisacsh History: World War II, Refugee and Migration Studies, Colonial History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110997699 ZDB-23-BHBO print 9781789204445 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789204476?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789204476 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789204476/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. How the Poles Came to Africa -- Chapter 2. The Postwar Refugee Regime and the Imperial Order of Things -- Chapter 3. Comparing Colonialisms in Africa and Poland -- Chapter 4. ‘An Incredible Pool of Femininity’: Gendering the Refugees -- Chapter 5. Polish Refugees as Part of Colonial Society -- Conclusion. On the Edges of Whiteness -- Bibliography -- Index |
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