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World History Bulletin Spring 2015 Vol XXXI No. 1 World History Association Jared Poley Editor [email protected] Editor’s Note 1 From the Executive Director 2 Letter from the President 3 Special Section: Empire and the Great War 4 - 40 An Empire of the Hejaz? An Examination of Sharif Hussein’s Pre-World War I Imperial Ambitions James L. Bowden 4 The Adventures of William Barry: Exploring the Colonial Encounters of the First World War Anna Maguire, King’s College London and Imperial War Museums 7 Maximum Advantage: Imperial Diplomacy and the United States, 1914 – 1917 Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma 10 The Retreat of World War I Austrian POWs to China Lee Chinyun 15 Puerto Rican Soldiers in the First World War: Colonial Troops For A New Empire Silvia Alvarez Curbelo, University of Puerto Rico 18 The Great War and a Colonial Landscape: Environmental History in German East Africa, 1914-16 Michael McInneshin, La Salle University 22 The Need to “Free” Africa from “German Oppression”: British Propaganda from German East Africa, 1914-1918 Charlotte Miller 25 The Dutch East Indies During the First World War and the Birth of Colonial Radio Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, University of Amsterdam 28 The Anzac Myth: History and Collective Public Memory in Australia on the Centenary of World War I Andrew Kelly, University of Western Sydney 31 Mourning, Memory, and Material Culture: Colonial Commemoration of the Missing on the Great War’s Western Front Hanna Smyth, University of British Columbia 34 practical ideas for the classroom; she intro- duces her course on French colonialism in Domesticating the “Queen of Haiti, Algeria, and Vietnam, and explains how Beans”: How Old Regime France aseemingly esoteric topic like the French empirecan appear profoundly relevant to stu- Learned to Love Coffee* dents in Southern California. Michael G. Vann’sessay turns our attention to the twenti- Julia Landweber eth century and to Indochina. He argues that Montclair State University both French historians and world historians would benefit from agreater attention to Many goods which students today think of Vietnamese history,and that this history is an as quintessentially European or “Western” ideal means for teaching students about cru- began commercial life in Africa and Asia. cial world history processes, from the opium This essay addresses coffee as aprime trade to the First World War. example of such acommodity,with the goal The final two essays, from two of the most of demonstrating how the history of its eminent historians working in French colonial studies, show how insights drawn from French adoption by one European country,France, cases can help complicate our understanding played asignificant role in world history of the dynamics of world history.Tyler Stovall during the period between 1650 and 1800. links African-American history with the history Coffee today is second-most valuable com- of French de-colonization by focusing on afor- modity in the world, ranking only behind gotten novel, William Gardner Smith’s The oil.1 With Latin America producing over half Stone Face (1963). In arich exploration of this the global coffee supply,most consumers are text, Stovall nuances our understanding of unaware that for centuries coffee was found national identity,diaspora, and racial injus- only in the highlands of Ethiopia and the tice. Most importantly,Stovall’sanalysis mountains of Yemen, or that France was an places the history of Algeria’sstruggle for instrumental founder of the global coffee independence and the American Civil Rights economy.Other than possibly knowing that movements in the same global context. Julia the French invented the café, few students Clancy-Smith recounts the fascinating life of know anything of how an Arab and Ottoman one of her mentors, the French anthropologist drink became aquintessential part of French Germaine Tillion. By analyzing Tillion’sbiog- culture, and abasic commodity of modern raphy as well as her writings, Clancy-Smith life. Integrating coffee into the world history offers new insights on migration, gender,colo- classroom offers an appealing way to teach nialism, and the state; she also reveals the ben- efits to world historians of occasionally mov- students why case studies drawn from ing away from amacroangle to focus on indi- French history have value in the larger nar- vidual lives. ratives about world history. It has been apleasuretoedit this volume Coffee became “French” in two senses and we hope that the Bulletin’s readers, what- between 1650 and 1800: initially as adrink, ever their specialty,will enjoy this rich collec- it gained adomestic element by pairing with tion of essays. We hope that these contributions locally-produced milk; later as acommodity, will not only encourage greater usage of exam- it achieved aquasi-French identity after cof- ples drawn from the French case, but also spur fee plantations were formed in French over- further reflection on the relationship between seas colonies, and French merchants wrested the national and the global. Through integrat- control of the global coffee trade. Coffee ing the fields of French and World History in simultaneously (if contradictorily) benefit- our teaching and our research, we can make ted from its exotic Arabian and Turkish asso- myriad French connections. ciations in acultural era marked in France by successive waves of turquerie,orfascination with Turkish imagery.Athird important Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall component to coffee’sadoption into French California State University –San Marcos food-ways and culture is the café [as men- tioned above]. Coffee gave its name to this and institution, afavorite destination philosophers who did Southeast World History Association to make coffee preferableDEPARTMENTto wine OF HISTORY sewha.org / An Affiliate of the World History Association middling and intellectualCollegeclasses. of Arts and Sciences P.O. Box 4117 to space constraints, theAtlanta,present GA 30302-4117 on the first Phone:two issues 404/413-6385 the history of coffee’Fax:sa doption 404/413-6384 gsu.edu/history Editor’s Note: We are excited to present in the Spring issue of the World History Bulletin a special section focusing on the theme of “Empire and the Great War.” The section offers a compelling collection of essays that indicate in fresh ways how the “World War” impacted a set of other global structures like empire. This section of the Bulletin was guest-edited by Dhara Anjaria. I deeply appreciate the thoughtfulness and rich variety of the section, and I thank Dhara – and the contributors – for their hard work. This issue also brings to a conclusion my five-year term as editor of theWorld History Bulletin. The entire experience has been a wonderful one, and I have nothing but the greatest respect and gratitude for the people I’ve worked with on this project since 2009. Please welcome my colleague here at Georgia State University, Denis Gainty, as the incoming editor. As always, the Bulletin seeks to publish “short-form” essays on all aspects of historical scholarship including pedagogy, research, or theory. Topics may include the prehistoric, ancient, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods. Articles may include model syllabi or assignments, if applicable. Or, if you would like to guest-edit a selection of essays on a particular theme, please contact Denis at [email protected]. with all good wishes, Jared Poley World History Bulletin ISSN: 0886-117X © 2015 World History Association Managing Editor: Jared Poley (Georgia State University) Student Assistant: Zach Bates Editorial Board: Rob Willingham (Roanoke College) Michelle Brattain (Georgia State University) Denis Gainty (Georgia State University) Carolyn Biltoft (Georgia State University) Jonathan Grant (Florida State University) Book Review Coordinator: Peter Dykema (Arkansas Tech) The World History Bulletin is edited by the Southeast World History Association, which is housed in the History Department of Georgia State University. practical ideas for the classroom; she intro- duces her course on French colonialism in Domesticating the “Queen of Haiti, Algeria, and Vietnam, and explains how Beans”: How Old Regime France aseemingly esoteric topic like the French empirecan appear profoundly relevant to stu- Learned to Love Coffee* dents in Southern California. Michael G. Vann’sessay turns our attention to the twenti- Julia Landweber eth century and to Indochina. He argues that Montclair State University both French historians and world historians would benefit from agreater attention to Many goods which students today think of Vietnamese history,and that this history is an as quintessentially European or “Western” ideal means for teaching students about cru- began commercial life in Africa and Asia. cial world history processes, from the opium This essay addresses coffee as aprime trade to the First World War. example of such acommodity,with the goal The final two essays, from two of the most of demonstrating how the history of its eminent historians working in French colonial Fromstudies, theshow howExecutiveinsights drawn fr Directorom French adoption by one European country,France, Dear Colleagues, cases can help complicate our understandingThrough a stroke of goodplayed fortune,as weignificant found a role in world history of the dynamics of worldmosthistory qualified.Tyler NortheasternStovall studentduring workerthe periodnamed Cathybetween 1650 and 1800. 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