{"product_id":"the-greater-second-world-war-global-perspectives-9781501780653","title":"The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking 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\u003ci\u003e The Greater Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Marco Maria Aterrano, Th. W. Bottelier, Pablo del Hierro, Alexandre Fortes, Kelly A. Hammond, Ashley Jackson, Naina Manjrekar, David Motadel, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Martin Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew 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 \u003ci\u003ePast \u0026amp; Present\u003c\/i\u003e and articles in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiplomatic History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Journal of Contemporary History\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eFrom World War to Postwar, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by Bloomsbury in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth 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 \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiplomatic History\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Modern American History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51201531773202,"sku":"9781501780653","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_efe4eaab-3870-4bc2-8345-d2bf19f45103.jpg?v=1744914027","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-greater-second-world-war-global-perspectives-9781501780653","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}