The peoples' war? : the Second World War in sociopolitical perspective / edited by Alexander Wilson, Richard Hammond, and Jonathan Fennell.

Other author Wilson, Alexander (Lecturer in security studies), editor.
Other author Hammond, Richard, 1985- editor.
Other author Fennell, Jonathan, 1979- editor.
Format Book
PublicationMontreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Descriptionvii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects.
World War, 1939-1945--Political aspects.

Contents World War, Worldwide Mobilization: How Global History Complicates the "People's War" Narrative / Andrew N. Buchanan -- Fascist Warfare on the Home Front: War Mobilization and the Fragmentation of Italian Society, 1935-1943 / Nicoḷ Da Lio -- Building an Enemy: Great Britain as Depicted by Italian Fascist Propaganda / Jacopo Pili -- Growing Up in Kaifeng: Young People, Ideology, and Mobilization in Occupied China, 1938-1945 / Mark Baker -- "What the Soldier Thinks": Mobilizing the Mind of the American Soldier in the Second World War / Edward J.K. Gitre -- Health Care and Disease in Italy's War, 1940-1945 / Fabio De Ninno -- The Second World War and the New Deal for American Science / Richard V. Damms -- Edward Murrow and the "Little People" of the Blitz: A Study in American Idealism / Sean Dettman -- German Anti-partisan Warfare: The Spectrum of Ruthlessness to Restraint / Ben H. Shepherd -- Italian Occupation Policies and Counterinsurgency Campaigns in France and in the Balkans, 1940-1943 / Emanuele Sica -- Divided Loyalties: Indian Prisoners of War in Singapore, February 1942 to May 1943 / Kevin Noles -- Spawning Fratricide: Occupation and Resistance in Greece, 1941-1944 / Christina J.M. Goulter -- Gender and Community During War: The Amorous Relationships of Western POWs and German Women in Nazi Germany / Raffael Scheck -- Framing Myths of the Second World War through Ministry of Information Propaganda Posters / Katherine Howells -- Beyond a "People's War": The Polish Past and the Second World War in Contemporary Perspective / Jadwiga Biskupska.
Abstract "Some 75 million people were killed during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex international experiences of this war remains elusive. The Peoples' War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that have been marginalized in military and political studies, the volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places. Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals--including women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial subjects--whose stories do not fit easily into conventional national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front, occupier and occupied, captor and prisoner, and friend and foe became increasingly blurred as the war wore on. Above all, the volume encourages reflection on whether this conflict really was a "Peoples' War." Challenging the homogenizing narratives of the war as a nationally unifying experience, The Peoples' War? seeks to enrich our understanding of the Second World War as a global event."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsIssued also in electronic format.
Issued in other formOnline version: Peoples' war? Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228015898 9780228015895
LCCN 2023445197
ISBN9780228014706 hardcover
ISBN0228014700 hardcover
ISBN9780228014713 paperback
ISBN0228014719 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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