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Ben Wellings, Shanti Sumartojo et Matthew Graves

Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War Centenary

• Introduction
• Politics, national narratives and international commemoration
• (Mis)representing race and empire, 1900-1920
• Entanglements of scale: shared memories and memorialisation
• Conclusions: variable geometries of remembrance

Rediscovering and Rehabilitating Empire, 2014-2018

Paul J. Bailey

From ‘Coolie’ to Transnational Agent

The ‘Afterlives’ of World War One Chinese Workers

• Introduction
• Chinese Workers and World War One
• Post-1949 Representations of the World War One Chinese Workers
• The ‘Rediscovery’ of the World War One Chinese Workers at the Turn of the Millennium
• Overlooked Aspects of the Chinese Recruitment
• Conclusion

Peter Stanley

Marigolds and Poppies Commemorating ‘Indian’ War Dead

• ‘Foreign Cemetery’: war commemoration in South Asia
• The Great War: mass slaughter and individual remembrance
• ‘… and 65 other Indian soldiers’ Anonymity and commemoration
• ‘Long live martyrs’: Great War commemoration and the centenary
• Conclusion

Laurence van Ypersele et Enika Ngongo

Situating the Belgian Congo in Belgium’s First World War Centenary

• The Outbreak of the War and the Question of Belgian Congo Neutrality
• The Belgian Congo and Military Operations in Central Africa
• The ‘Forgotten’ Belgian Congo During the Centenary Commemorations
• Conclusion

Katherine Smits

Maori and Great War Commemoration in New Zealand

Biculturalism and the Politics of Forging National Memory

• Maori troops in the First World War
• The First World War and the emergence of a New Zealand national identity
• Commemoration and contemporary race politics
• Conclusion

Representing Race and Empire 1900-1920

Elizabeth Rechniewski

Resénégalisation and the Representation of Black African Troops during World War One

• Introduction
• Recruitment of La Force Noire
• Forestalling the Dangers of ‘Fraternisation’
• Maclaud’s Project of ‘Resénégalisation’
• The Colonial Lobby
• Conclusion

Deirdre Gilfedder

‘A Strange, New Race’: Eugenics and the Australian Soldier in the First World War

• Nation, Race, Eugenics and War
• Charles Bean, war journalists and the ‘national type’
• Conclusion

Gilles Teulié

The First Circle of Memory

First World War Postcards of British Imperial Troops in Marseilles

• The postcard industry and the First World War
• British Imperial troops and the people of Marseilles
• Editing postcards in Marseilles
• Soldiers on postcards and Marseilles’ lieux de mémoire
• Postcards between text and image
• Conclusion: an incomplete and mistaken memory

Cherie Prosser

Aesthetic Form and Political Function

Representations of French Algerian and British Indian Troops in First Word War Recruiting Posters

• Introduction
• The construction of empire
• The use of posters as recruitment propaganda
• British stereotypes
• French stereotypes
• Conclusion

Memorialising Race and Empire in Settler Societies, 1919-2018

Dónal Hassett

A Tale of Two Monuments

The War Memorials of Oran and Algiers and Commemorative Culture in Colonial and Post-Colonial Algeria

• French Algeria and the Great War
• Memorialising the War Dead in Inter-War French Algeria
• Memorials and the Algerian War of Independence
• Memorial Politics in the Post-colonial Era
• Conclusion

Shanti Sumartojo et Ben Wellings

Anzac, Race and Empire

Memorialising Soldiers and Warriors in Australia

• Introduction
• Anzac, Race and Empire: the shifting foundations of Australian war memory
• Warriors and Soldiers: Adam Goodes and the boundaries of Australian war memory
• Memorialising Frontier Conflict: city, nation-state and scale
• Conclusions

Contributor Biographies

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