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“Stomach, nerves, bones—Disabled Empire leaves no doubt about the way the violence of World War I left its imprint on the entire human system. Centering the embodied wartime experiences of colonial soldiers of color, Buxton takes up the entangled histories of trauma and treatment through practices of care and repair, modeling new ways of historicizing what ‘bodies for war’ meant in material and affective terms.” -- Antoinette Burton, author of “Gender History: A Very Short Introduction”

“Stomach, nerves, bones—Disabled Empire leaves no doubt about the way the violence of World War I left its imprint on the entire human system. Centering the embodied wartime experiences of colonial soldiers of color, Buxton takes up the entangled histories of trauma and treatment through practices of care and repair, modeling new ways of historicizing what ‘bodies for war’ meant in material and affective terms.” -- Antoinette Burton, author of “Gender History: A Very Short Introduction” “Drawing on diverse sources from Britain, India, and the West Indies, Buxton powerfully recenters the damaged body and mind of the colonial soldier to uncover the entangled histories of race, labor, health, and empire during and after the First World War. With intricate care, she reconstructs the worlds of colonial food rations, prosthetics, psychiatry, and postwar pensions in their bewildering variety. Plunging us from the gray of imperial ideologies to the green of lived experiences, she brilliantly shows how these soldiers of color negotiated, contested, and re-remade the practices of care by their officers, doctors, limb-makers, and healers. Such interventions, in turn, shaped the postwar worlds of medicine, colonial knowledge, and political mobilization. A startlingly original and deeply humane book.” -- Santanu Das, author of “India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs”

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Hilary R. Buxton is assistant professor of history at Kenyon College.

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