The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture: 03

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/23/2017
EAN 9781108406413, ISBN10: 1108406416

Paperback, 848 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 5.7 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the political economy of industrial war, the social practices of war, the moral economy of war and peace and the repercussions of catastrophic destruction. A team of nearly thirty leading historians together show how entire nations mobilized their economies and populations in the face of unimaginable violence, and how they dealt with the subsequent losses that followed. The volume concludes by considering the lasting impact of the conflict and the memory of war across different cultures of commemoration.

Introduction to Volume 3 Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze
Part I. Political Economy
Introduction to Part I Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze
1. The economics of the war with Germany Adam Tooze and Jamie Martin
2. Finance for war in Asia and its aftermath Greg Huff
3. War of the factories Jeff Fear
4. Controlling resources
coal, iron-ore and oil in the Second World War David Edgerton
5. The human fuel
food as global commodity and local scarcity Lizzie Collingham
6. Knowledge economies Cathryn Carson
7. Seaborne transport Michael Miller
Part II. The Social Practice of Total War, 1939–1945
Introduction to Part II Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze
8. Death and survival in the Second World War Richard Bessel
9. Battles for morale
an entangled history of total war in Europe, 1939–1945 Jochen Hellbeck
10. The war of the cities
industrial labouring forces Rüdiger Hachtman
11. The war of the villages
the interwar agrarian crisis and the Second World War Adam Tooze
12. Hors de combat
mobilization and immobilization in total war Geoffrey Cocks
13. Environments, states and societies at war Christopher Pearson
Part III. The Moral Economy of War
Introduction to Part III Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze
14. Just and unjust wars
military – civil society – states Michael Geyer
15. Wars of displacement
exile and uprooting in the 1940s Yasmin Khan
16. Sexuality and sexual violence Sabine Frühstück
17. A war for liberty
the law of conscientious objection in the Second World War Jeremy Kessler
18. Bringing the dogs of war to heel
pacifism in the Second World War Devin Pendas
19. Humanitarian politics and governance
international responses to the civilian toll in the Second World War Stephen Porter
Part IV. Illusive Peace
From War to Cold War
Introduction to Part IV Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze
20. The rise and fall of central planning David Engerman
21. Two types of new deal. The Second World War and the renegotiation of the social contract in Britain, Europe and America Timothy B. Smith
22. Nationalism, decolonization, geopolitics and the Asian postwar Rana Mitter
23. Making peace as a project of moral reconstruction Mark Bradley
Part V. In the Aftermath of Catastrophic Destruction
Introduction to Part V Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze
24. Interpretations of catastrophe Peter Gordon
25. The ghosts of war Monica Black
26. Popular memory, popular culture
the war in the postwar world Lucy Noakes
27. The Second World War in global memory space Jie-Hyun Lim
28. Landscapes of destruction
capturing images and creating memory through photography Dorothee Brantz
Bibliographical essay
Index.