Greater Second World War

<p><b><i>The Greater Second World War</i></b><b> 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. </b>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.</p><p>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<i> The Greater Second World War</i> 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.</p><p>Contributors: Marco Maria Aterrano Th. W. Bottelier Pablo del Hierro Alexandre Fortes Kelly A. Hammond Ashley Jackson Naina Manjrekar David Motadel Tejasvi Nagaraja Martin Thomas</p>