The Great War and the Warfare–Welfare Nexus in British and French West African Colonies

IF 0.5 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Carina Schmitt, A. Shriwise
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Abstract In the Global North, mass warfare created a huge demand for social protection, pushing governments to provide income for invalids, war victims, and the survivors of fallen soldiers. Most European colonial powers, including France and Great Britain, recruited soldiers and other security forces not only from their metropoles but also from their colonies during both World Wars. However, the question of how mass warfare influenced social reforms in former colonies has not been systematically addressed, particularly with respect to how these influences varied across colonial powers. To begin to address this gap, this paper explores the warfare–welfare nexus in the context of British and French colonies of West Africa around World War I (WWI). The paper finds that, while Britain and France had similar overarching imperial and military objectives in West Africa of securing their colonies, enforcing order within them, and promoting commerce to increase profit, they went about achieving them very differently, with direct and indirect implications for social reforms after WWI. While only a first step, research on the distinct nature of the warfare–welfare nexus in colonial contexts is critical in order to historicize and close research gaps by widening and deepening our understanding of social policy trajectories in countries of the Global South.
英法西非殖民地的第一次世界大战和战争-福利关系
在全球北方,大规模战争产生了对社会保障的巨大需求,促使政府为残疾人、战争受害者和阵亡士兵的幸存者提供收入。在两次世界大战期间,包括法国和英国在内的大多数欧洲殖民国家不仅从本国首都招募士兵和其他安全部队,还从其殖民地招募士兵和其他安全部队。然而,大规模战争如何影响前殖民地社会改革的问题尚未得到系统解决,特别是这些影响在各殖民大国之间的差异。为了开始解决这一差距,本文探讨了第一次世界大战前后英法在西非殖民地的战争与福利关系。论文发现,尽管英法在西非有类似的总体帝国和军事目标,即确保殖民地的安全,在殖民地内执行秩序,促进商业以增加利润,但两国实现这些目标的方式截然不同,这对一战后的社会改革产生了直接和间接的影响。虽然只是第一步,但对殖民背景下战争-福利关系的独特性质的研究对于通过扩大和深化我们对全球南方国家社会政策轨迹的理解来历史化和缩小研究差距至关重要。
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期刊介绍: Social Science History seeks to advance the study of the past by publishing research that appeals to the journal"s interdisciplinary readership of historians, sociologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and geographers. The journal invites articles that blend empirical research with theoretical work, undertake comparisons across time and space, or contribute to the development of quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. Online access to the current issue and all back issues of Social Science History is available to print subscribers through a combination of HighWire Press, Project Muse, and JSTOR via a single user name or password that can be accessed from any location (regardless of institutional affiliation).
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