A rollicking account of military derring-do and theater with a sweeping global approach that sheds new light on war, colonialism, and popular culture in the nineteenth century. A triumph." - Robert Gildea, author of <em>Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present</em><br /><br />"A brilliant and riveting book that chronicles the history of Zouaves all over the world. The uniform makes the soldier, or in this case, the uniform provides a unique and fascinating way to understand and compare military culture and its role in different societies." - Ty Seidule, author of <em>Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause</em><br /><br />"In both France and the United States, Zouaves have been cultural Forrest Gumps, bopping up in all of the right places. Transnational history at its finest, <i>Zouave Theaters</i> is a must-read for anyone interested in military history, fashion history, the history of theater, French history, or American history." - Stephen L. Harp, author of <em>The Riviera, Exposed: An Ecohistory of Postwar Tourism and North African Labor</em><br /><br />"This is the first scholarly, transnational examination of Zouaves, not just as militants but as a wider cultural phenomenon. Expansive in scope and engagingly written, <i>Zouave Theaters</i> makes a tremendously valuable contribution to the fields of American and European cultural and military history." - Lesley J. Gordon, author of <em>A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War</em>