Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War: The... - Sheffield, R. Scott

Indigenous Peoples and the Second World WarThe Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand\nAuthor(s): R. Scott Sheffield, Noah Riseman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108424639, 978-1108424639\nSynopsis\nDuring the Second World War, Indigenous people in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada mobilised en masse to support the war effort, despite withstanding centuries of colonialism. Their roles ranged from ordinary soldiers fighting on distant shores, to soldiers capturing Japanese prisoners on their own territory, to women working in munitions plants on the home front. R. Scott Sheffield and Noah Riseman examine Indigenous experiences of the Second World War across these four settler societies. Informed by theories of settler colonialism, martial race theory and military sociology, they show how Indigenous people and their communities .