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070237 EX Excursion (2015S)
The First World War in the Caribbean
Continuous assessment of course work
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There are two dates for the Field Trip to Trinidad and Tobago: : 2.3.-15.3.2015 or 29.3.- 11.4.2015. Alternative I am offering dates between April and May prior arrangement. Final units (workshop) will take place at the University of Vienna on June 26-27 between 2-6pm.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Su 01.02.2015 00:00 to We 18.02.2015 10:00
- Registration is open from We 04.03.2015 00:00 to Fr 06.03.2015 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.03.2015 23:59
Details
max. 15 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
There are two dates for the Field Trip to Trinidad and Tobago: : 2.3.-15.3.2015 or 29.3.- 11.4.2015. Alternative I am offering dates between April and May prior arrangement. Final units (workshop) will take place at the University of Vienna on June 26-27 between 2-6pm.
- Friday 26.06. 14:00 - 18:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Geschichte 4 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9)
- Saturday 27.06. 14:00 - 18:00 (ehem. Seminarraum Geschichte 4 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9)
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Active participation in the excursion; research paper (3000 words); Lecture (20 minutes)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Understanding of the Great War as a Global War. Elaborate the impact of World War in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Caribbean as well as the long decolonization process aftermath.
Examination topics
Field Trip, Study of sources, workshop
Reading list
ASPINALL Algernon E., "The West Indies & the War". In: Overseas, 12, 1917, 55-7.
BARBEAU Arthur E./HENRI Florette, The Unknown Soldiers: African American Troops in World War 1. New York 1996.
BUCKLEY Roger Norman, Slaves in Red Coats: the British West India Regiments, 1795-1815, New Haven 1979.
CUNDALL Frank, Jamaica`s Part in the Great War 1914-1918. London 1925.
CIPRIANI A.A., Twenty-five Years After: The British West Indies Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918, Port of Spain 1940.
DALLAS Gloden/GILL Douglas, The Unknown Army: Mutinies in the British Army in World War I, London 1985.
DE LISSER H. G., Jamaica and the Great War. Kingston 1917.
DYDE Brian, The Empty Sleeve: the Story of the West India Regiment of the British Army, St. Johns 1997.
HORNER A.E., From the Islands of the Sea: Glimpses of a West Indian Battalion in France. Nassau 1919
HOWE Glenford D., Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War, Kingston 2002.
HOWE Glenford D., Military-Civilian Intercourse, Prostitution and Venereal Disease Among Black West Indian Soldiers During World War". In: JCH, 31:1 & 2, 1997, 91.
JOHNSTONE Harry H., The Black Man`s Part in the War. London 1917.
JOSEPH C. L., The British West Indies Regiment 1914-1918". In: Journal of Caribbean History, 2, 1971, 94-124.
OGILVIE Charles M., A Diary of the Great War, Kingston, 1919.
LEVINE Philippa,"Battle Colors: Race, Sex, and Colonial Soldiery in World War I”. In: Journal of Women´s History, 8:4, 1998, 104-130.
MORROW John, The Great War: An Imperial History, London 2004.
ORAM, Gerard - Worthless Men: Race Eugenics and the Death Penalty in the British Army During the First World War, London: Francis Bootle, 1998.
RAMSON Rev. J.L., "Carry On" or Papers from the Life of a West Indian Padre in the Field, Kingston 1918.
REED Paul, "Black Soldiers in the British Army, 1914-1919". In: Stand To! April 1997, 10-12.
SMITH Richard, Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness. Manchester 2004.
SOMERVILLE Christopher, Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War. London 1998.
BARBEAU Arthur E./HENRI Florette, The Unknown Soldiers: African American Troops in World War 1. New York 1996.
BUCKLEY Roger Norman, Slaves in Red Coats: the British West India Regiments, 1795-1815, New Haven 1979.
CUNDALL Frank, Jamaica`s Part in the Great War 1914-1918. London 1925.
CIPRIANI A.A., Twenty-five Years After: The British West Indies Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918, Port of Spain 1940.
DALLAS Gloden/GILL Douglas, The Unknown Army: Mutinies in the British Army in World War I, London 1985.
DE LISSER H. G., Jamaica and the Great War. Kingston 1917.
DYDE Brian, The Empty Sleeve: the Story of the West India Regiment of the British Army, St. Johns 1997.
HORNER A.E., From the Islands of the Sea: Glimpses of a West Indian Battalion in France. Nassau 1919
HOWE Glenford D., Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War, Kingston 2002.
HOWE Glenford D., Military-Civilian Intercourse, Prostitution and Venereal Disease Among Black West Indian Soldiers During World War". In: JCH, 31:1 & 2, 1997, 91.
JOHNSTONE Harry H., The Black Man`s Part in the War. London 1917.
JOSEPH C. L., The British West Indies Regiment 1914-1918". In: Journal of Caribbean History, 2, 1971, 94-124.
OGILVIE Charles M., A Diary of the Great War, Kingston, 1919.
LEVINE Philippa,"Battle Colors: Race, Sex, and Colonial Soldiery in World War I”. In: Journal of Women´s History, 8:4, 1998, 104-130.
MORROW John, The Great War: An Imperial History, London 2004.
ORAM, Gerard - Worthless Men: Race Eugenics and the Death Penalty in the British Army During the First World War, London: Francis Bootle, 1998.
RAMSON Rev. J.L., "Carry On" or Papers from the Life of a West Indian Padre in the Field, Kingston 1918.
REED Paul, "Black Soldiers in the British Army, 1914-1919". In: Stand To! April 1997, 10-12.
SMITH Richard, Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness. Manchester 2004.
SOMERVILLE Christopher, Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War. London 1998.
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The following themes will be covered:
- Pre-war Crisis in the Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean (e.g. Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua)
- State of Emergency (e. g.: curfew, food rationing, proclamations, edicts and ordinances, policing and surveillance, customs, postal communications, every day dramas, personal stories and narratives, private and official correspondences).
- War Economy (e. g.: food production, production of military garb, weaponry [e. g.: fuel, oil gas and energy supplies], the managed economy).
- Conduct of War (e .g. : Military Strategies, alliances, recruitment, the West Indian Regiment, Black Soldiers, establishment of military bases and barracks, military cemeteries, prisoners of war [Germans, Austrians(-Hungarians), Bulgarians, Turks, Collaborators], detention camps.
- Media (e.g.:: radio, newspapers, pamphlets, posters, films, propaganda).
- Post-War consequences (Disbanded soldiers, war veterans, monuments, migration, diplomacy, economic and political transitions processes).