Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025)
This
ambitious edited collection encourages readers to think in bigger ways
about the global Second World War. That includes a wider frame in space
and time, but also a larger geopolitical perspective of the war as a
world-system crisis and an expanded social perspective on who fought the
war and why. A team of international scholars take on this task in
chapters ranging from the global alliance system and colonial
mobilization to studies of particular cities and dockyards.
In a
wide-ranging conversation with both editors, we discuss questions of
imperialism, the rise and limits of US global hegemony, the 'ragged
ends' of the war, and the social movements of a window of
global possibility in 1945–46.
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