The Ottoman and European colonial contexts are the necessary background for unde…

Between 1914 and 1918, between 150,000 and 200,000 Africans traveled to Europe t…

This article analyzes the deployment of about half a million African soldiers in…

The mobile nature of the war in Africa meant supplying the forces with food was …

This article provides the first continent-wide overview of the catastrophic, wor…

This article provides a brief overview of the contribution of African economies …

Africa did not feature prominently in pre-war military planning. Once the Allies…

During the First World War Africans served as combatants, porters, and labourers…

Although many scientific innovations and technologies came to the continent with…

The First World War led to a renewed imperialist scramble for territory in Afric…

Human resources in Africa were exploited during the First World War for imperial…

World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …

During World War One, Hubert Lyautey was the French Resident-General in Morocco …

The two Moroccan crises represent the product of “rapacious joint imperialism.” …

Alliances were an important feature of the international system on the eve of Wo…

The First World War saw the colonial empires of France and Britain mobilised to …

The article discusses the role of the media in the complex international process…

The end of fighting in 1918 raised hopes for swift and equitable military demobi…

The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly atte…

This article focuses on the extent to which imperialism contributed to the outbr…

Many issues surrounding the conduct of war in the years 1914-1918 were imperviou…

This article examines the use by Great Britain and France of colonial subjects f…

Imperialism shaped almost every facet of international politics from 1898 to 191…