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The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa
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The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia Hardcover - 2010

by Heike Liebau (Volume Editor); Katrin Bromber (Volume Editor); Katharina Lange (Volume Editor)


Details

  • Title The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia
  • Author Heike Liebau (Volume Editor); Katrin Bromber (Volume Editor); Katharina Lange (Volume Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 628
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2010
  • ISBN 9789004185456 / 9004185453
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Africa, World War, 1939-1945 - Asia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010028662
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.35

About the author

Heike Liebau is a historian/linguist who studied in Taschkent and received her PhD from University of Halle (Germany). She is presently a research fellow at ZMO in Berlin and works on the impact of print in colonial India as well as on Indian experiences of the First World War.

Katrin Bromber received her Ph.D. in African Linguistics from the University of Leipzig (Germany) and her habilitation degree from the University of Vienna (Austria). She specialized in Swahili Studies and currently works on sports in Ethiopia and the Gulf States. Since 2001 she has been affiliated to ZMO in Berlin.

Katharina Lange PhD in 2002 (University of Leipzig) is an anthropologist who studied in Tbingen, Leipzig, and Reed College / USA, and received her PhD in 2002. She has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt and currently works on oral and written historical narratives in northern Syria. She is a research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin.

Dyala Hamzah is research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin. She holds a M. Phil in philosophy (Sorbonne) and a PhD in History and Islamic Studies (Freie Universitt Berlin, EHESS Paris).

Ravi Ahuja is a social historian of labour, infrastructure and war in colonial India. He is presently professor of Modern Indian History and the director of the newly founded Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Gttingen.