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Lissa K. Wadewitz. The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. 384 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-99182-5.
Reviewed by Sheila M. McManus (University of Lethbridge)
Published on H-Borderlands (September, 2012)
Commissioned by Benjamin H. Johnson
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31854
Drawing Lines in the Salish Sea
Even the most cursory glance at North American borderlands scholarship reveals that we are, overwhelmingly, a bunch of drylanders. The vast majority of us are obsessed with tracking invisible lines and the categories they create or challenge on the open dry land of the continent. What makes Lissa K. Wadewitz’s work so refreshing and important is that she turns her back firmly on the land and gazes out to the deep, salmon-rich water of the Salish Sea, where present-day British Columbia and Washington State meet. In doing so, she accomplishes something unprecedented in the field of North American borderlands history.
Raffael Scheck. Hitler’s African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 202 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-85799-4.
Reviewed by Jeremiah Kitunda (Appalachian State University)
Published on H-Genocide (September, 2012)
Commissioned by Elisa G. von Joeden-Forgey
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31854
A Tribute to Europe’s African Retainers and Their Fate in the Twentieth-Century Rhineland
During the first half of the twentieth century the fate of Africa and Europe became intricately connected through the two bloody conflicts of 1914-18 and 1939-45. However, as one African adage goes, “until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,” and most histories of the two world wars focus on the European rank-and-file. The narratives of African retainers of Europe as victors and victims is overshadowed by the story of their European comrades, not because black soldiers’ stories were inconsequential, not because their numbers and actions were insignificant compared to those of their fellow white comrades, but because history is by nature selective and subjective. Moreover, archival sources containing such narratives are only now becoming publicly available.
This morning (9th October), a large group of Sub Saharans, probably the 55 people arrested last week in the Sinaï (see article below) arrived on board of 3 microbuses and 1 police vehicule in el Qanater prison for men (north of Cairo).
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This morning 1, the Sudanese camp was destroyed. 19 arrests. The footprints of everyone were taken. 3 people were put in detention and is expected to deport them to Italy. The others were released tonight. The cops told them that if they returned they would settle there six months in prison.
Yesterday the Palestinian squat was sentenced closed leaving all matters within its occupants. It has been said that if they returned they would have six months in prison ..
- 10.2012 ↩
„Bei schweren Zusammenstößen zwischen Demonstranten und der Polizei auf der tunesischen Ferieninsel Djerba sind am Samstag mehrere Dutzend Menschen verletzt worden. Wie ein Sprecher des Innenministeriums berichtete, hatten einige hundert Bewohner aus Protest gegen die Wiedereröffnung einer Müllhalde eine Straße blockiert. Als die Demonstranten Steine und Brandsätze auf die Polizisten warfen, setzten diese Tränengas und Knüppel ein.