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The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives
Authors:
Andrew N. Buchanan
,
Ruth Lawlor (editors)
ISBN:
9789395474023
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
408 with 2 maps
Size:
16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:
763 grams
Price:
INR
2995
2696.00
About the Book
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.
About the Authors
Andrew N. Buchanan
Andrew N. 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
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
.
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