Ashley Jackson
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207641
- eISBN:
- 9780191677762
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207641.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
While the notion of ‘home front’ is commonly found in discussions regarding the historiography of Britain during periods of war, and is often used to represent domestic manifestations within the war, ...
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While the notion of ‘home front’ is commonly found in discussions regarding the historiography of Britain during periods of war, and is often used to represent domestic manifestations within the war, such can also be applied to how the war had been able to impose significant and direct impacts on the economic and social lives of the people in Bechuanaland. During the period between 1939 and 1945, it was made evident through the various rationing measures, price and tax increases, and other such economic measures, that the Protectorate had made considerable economic contributions to the war. Intensified control and regulation measures and the extraction of resources are commonplace descriptions of the African economies during the war. In this chapter, the different aspects of the economic history of wartime in Bechuanaland are analysed to provide an outline of the war's key effects.Less
While the notion of ‘home front’ is commonly found in discussions regarding the historiography of Britain during periods of war, and is often used to represent domestic manifestations within the war, such can also be applied to how the war had been able to impose significant and direct impacts on the economic and social lives of the people in Bechuanaland. During the period between 1939 and 1945, it was made evident through the various rationing measures, price and tax increases, and other such economic measures, that the Protectorate had made considerable economic contributions to the war. Intensified control and regulation measures and the extraction of resources are commonplace descriptions of the African economies during the war. In this chapter, the different aspects of the economic history of wartime in Bechuanaland are analysed to provide an outline of the war's key effects.
Ashley Jackson
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207641
- eISBN:
- 9780191677762
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207641.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
When the war broke out, the British moved that the Bechuanaland Protectorate be mobilized for the British army, as about 11,000 soldiers were recruited to serve abroad. Although one of the universal ...
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When the war broke out, the British moved that the Bechuanaland Protectorate be mobilized for the British army, as about 11,000 soldiers were recruited to serve abroad. Although one of the universal assumptions about this event entails how the Africans refused to join the army, and that they avoided various efforts made for their involvement, this chapter considers several different underlying motives to such actions of the British Administration, and looks into how ordinary people participated in this movement, regardless of whether they willingly supported the war or whether they served as ‘conscripted volunteers’. It also examines how and why the African Chiefs within the territory and the British Administration of Bechuanaland were able to strongly reinforce such recruitment measures.Less
When the war broke out, the British moved that the Bechuanaland Protectorate be mobilized for the British army, as about 11,000 soldiers were recruited to serve abroad. Although one of the universal assumptions about this event entails how the Africans refused to join the army, and that they avoided various efforts made for their involvement, this chapter considers several different underlying motives to such actions of the British Administration, and looks into how ordinary people participated in this movement, regardless of whether they willingly supported the war or whether they served as ‘conscripted volunteers’. It also examines how and why the African Chiefs within the territory and the British Administration of Bechuanaland were able to strongly reinforce such recruitment measures.
