The Greater Second World War (eBook)

Global Perspectives

Andrew N. Buchanan, Ruth Lawlor (Herausgeber)

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2025
408 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8066-0 (ISBN)

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The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began in 1931 and continued into the mid-1950s. These conflicts bookended a "central paroxysm" defined by the intervention of the United States into every theater of the war, rendering it genuinely global. The essays within this volume bring top-level accounts of US, European, and Axis strategic maneuvering into conversation with social histories of "bottom-up" agency in ways that destabilize conventional narratives.

Working with novel and overlapping scales of time and space and attuned to ongoing and lively debates about the place of the nation-state in global history after 1945, the scholars featured in The Greater Second World War seek to not only describe the war's beginnings in Asia and Africa—rather than in Europe—but also trace its ends to the shatter zones of the Soviet frontier, the struggles for sovereignty in contested spaces, and the long-reaches of US imperialism well into the late twentieth century. Together, their contributions reveal how the cascading imperial and economic crises of the mid-twentieth century triggered a series of discrete local and regional struggles that took on the character of a singular, unified "world war" after the entry of the United States into every theater and almost every corner of the world.

Contributors: Marco Maria Aterrano, Th. W. Bottelier, Pablo del Hierro, Alexandre Fortes, Kelly A. Hammond, Ashley Jackson, Naina Manjrekar, David Motadel, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Martin Thomas

Autor

Andrew Buchanan teaches global and military history at the University of Vermont. He has written extensively on World War II, including "Globalizing the Second World War" in Past & Present and articles in American Quarterly, Diplomatic History, Journal of Contemporary History, and other journals. His most recent book, From World War to Postwar, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.

Ruth Lawlor teaches diplomatic and military history at Cornell. Her book on sexual violence and the US military justice system in World War II is forthcoming with Oxford University Press, and her writing has appeared in the Journal of Military History, Diplomatic History, and Modern American History.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Greater SecondWorld War
1. Subaltern Worldmaking after War: India, Indonesia, and the IndianOcean Anticolonial Moment,1945–1946
2. Decolonization, the ViolenceContinuum, and the GreaterSecond World War
3. The British Empire's Pacific War
4. Nodes of Empire, Ports of Solidarity: Decolonization, Racial Capitalism,and the Global War-Work Mutiny of1946
5. Soviet and US Involvement in theColonial World, 1939–1945
6. A Global Metropolis: Tangier duringthe Second World War
7. The "Grand Alliance of Nations": Making War Global, Waging GlobalWar, 1937–1955
8. Civil Aviation and HemisphericDefense: World War II andInternational Disputes overBrazilian Airlines
9. Armed Disorder: Reaffirming theState's Monopoly on LegitimateViolence in Allied-Occupied Europe
10. Living with the Ghosts ofPan-Asianism? Chinese Muslims, Internationalism, andDecolonization
11. Hopes Foreclosed and a WorldRemade: The Long Endings ofWorld War II

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: global war, decolonialization, central paroxysm, US imperialism, Latin America, Indian Ocean, British Pacific, revolutions
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-8066-2 / 1501780662
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-8066-0 / 9781501780660