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First edition. |
| Description |
x, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-506) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Part I: Hope. "The present war in Europe is one of the great disasters due to race and color prejudice and it but foreshadows greater disasters in the future." -- "These are the days of confusion and contradiction." -- "... a scientific and exhaustive history of the black man in the Great War ..." -- "I have seen the wound of France..." -- Part II: Disillusion. "The imperative duty of the moment is to fix in history the status of our Negro troops." -- "How great a failure and a failure in what does the World War betoken?" -- "... the madness was divine." -- "If now I do my duty toward America, it is possible America will do her duty toward me." -- Part III: Failure. "... and Evil, a retrogression to Barbarism, a waste, a wholesale murder." -- "I am ashamed at my own lack of foresight." -- "I think I can do something which will have influence on future knowledge with regard to war and colored people." -- "I hate war." -- Epilogue: "... that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to other for endless days to be finished while I rest." |
| Summary |
"The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Political and social views.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- African Americans.
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United States. Army -- African American troops.
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African American soldiers -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
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| Genre |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War |
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WEB Du Bois and the First World War |
| ISBN |
9780374293154 hardcover : $30.00 |
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0374293155 hardcover |
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