The Egyptian Labor Corps : : Race, Space, and Place in the First World War / / Kyle J. Anderson.
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and put them to work handling military logistics in Europe and the Middle East. British authorities reneged on their promise not to draw Egyptians...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- A Note about Language
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A broken promise
- Chapter 2 The new Corvée
- Chapter 3 From home to the front
- Chapter 4 “If this is the holy land, what must hell be like?”
- Chapter 5 Race and space in Elc camps
- Chapter 6 Listening in on the Elc
- Chapter 7 The men of the Elc take action
- Chapter 8 “I will not accept slavery!”
- Chapter 9 The Elc and the 1919 revolution
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index