Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers. Leading to large-scale mobilization of human and materials resources, it transformed lives and societies in irrevocable ways. Of the 90,000 West African soldiers deployed to South East Asia after 1943, over half came from Nigeria. In this important, revisionist history, Chima J. Korieh examines how the lives of Nigerian producers, workers, merchants, men, women, and children from across society were affected. It recounts the extraordinary and often neglected story of the Nigerian people who were drawn into a global war, the enormous demands it made on their resources, and the way it would change both their lives and the societies they lived in. By placing the role that African societies played in the war within the contextual and theoretical frameworks of colonialism, race, gender, identity, labour, intellectual, and soci
英文影印本。一部系統介紹古代拉丁語文化的百科全書，涉及歷史、地理、政治、經濟、軍事、學術、技術、風俗、鳥獸草木方方面面，與倫納德·惠布利主編的《希臘研究手冊》（A Companion to Greek Studies，1905年第1版，1906年第2版，1916年第3版，1931年第4版，桑茲也參與了此書的編寫）都是研究或瞭解西方古典文化必備的參考指南。本書1910年出版了第1版，經過多次增補1912年出版了第2版，1921年出版了第3版
