Full Description
Positioned at the crossroads of global and military history, this volume makes a major contribution to the cultural and social history of war and its aftermath. Bruno Cabanes and Cameron Givens bring together a team of leading experts to reassess the two world wars, connecting time periods, topics, and spaces traditionally treated in isolation. They examine how these armed conflicts engendered new confrontations and encounters; forged and severed transnational networks and pathways; propelled people, ideas, knowledge, and practices across and within political boundaries; and triggered complex and contested memory-making. By rethinking the relationship between military and global history, the authors encourage readers to consider the broader impact of war on twentieth-century history, from international law and humanitarianism, to race and the environment. This ambitious reframing showcases the most innovative efforts to globalize the history of the world wars and provides fertile ground for future research.
Contents
Introduction Bruno Cabanes and Cameron Givens; Part I. Total Wars: A Connected History: 1. Entwined Escalation: Total War and European Colonial Violence Erik Linstrum; 2. Japan's Transnational Home Front Sheldon Garon; 3. Total War in Republican China: Strategy and Politics Victor Louzon; 4. 'Democracy, We Deliver': Bombing, Morale, and Total War in the Pacific Ran Zwigenberg; Part II. Transnational Aid, International Law, and New Perspectives in Global Humanitarianism: 5. Hunger, Food Networks, and Global Empathy in the Shadow of the Great War Mary Cox; 6. Neutral but not Uncaring: Argentina's Humanitarian Mobilization in the World Wars María Inés Tato; 7. Internment, the First World War, and Empire-Building in the Pacific Mahon Murphy; 8. Captivity and Wartime Encounters in Japan and Its Empire,1937-1947 Sarah Kovner; Part III. The Self and the Other: Colonial and Racial Encounters in Modern Warfare: 9. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, Global War, and the Remaking of American White Supremacy, 1915-1924 Cameron Givens; 10. 'I Wish All the Marmalade Ships Would Go Down': Global Foodways, Culinary Encounters, and Transnational Exchange in the First World War Bruce Scates; 11. Globalizing the Two World Wars: Colonial Ruptures and Continuities Eric T. Jennings; Part IV. Global Memories: 12. South Asia and the Centennial Commemoration: Devolution, Diversity, Decolonisation Santanu Das; 13. Cultures of Victory: Globalizing Memories of War in East-Central Europe John Paul Newman; 14. Exhibiting Wars and Genocides: Museum-Memorials in a Global World Annette Becker; Conclusion John Horne.
