Defending Whose Country?

Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War

Autor: Noah Jed Riseman

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: University of Nebraska Press

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In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, the armed forces of the Un...

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Autor

Noah Jed Riseman

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2012

Stránok

336

EAN

9780803237933

ISBN

0803237936

Enbook ID

04923166

Vydavateľ

University of Nebraska Press

Hmotnosť

642

Rozmery

163 x 235 x 28

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In the campaign against Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War, the armed forces of the United States, Australia, and in the Australian colonies of Papua and New Guinea made use of indigenous peoples in new capacities. The United States had long used American Indians as soldiers and scouts in frontier conflicts and in wars with other nations. With the advent of the Navajo Code Talkers in the Pacific theatre, Native servicemen were now being employed for contributions that were unique to their Native culture. In contrast, Australia, Papua, and New Guinea had long attempted to keep indigenous peoples out of the armed forces altogether. With the threat of Japanese invasion, however, they began to bring indigenous peoples into the military as guerrilla patrollers, coast-watchers, and regular soldiers. Defending Whose Country? is a comparative study of the military participation of Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific War. In examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces, Noah Riseman reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War.

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