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.
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'This clearly written and well-presented book elaborates the harrowing complexities of the Second World War This book is a rich resource. Every library must, clearly, purchase a copy ' Penny Summerfield, Family and Community History 'As an editor of several reference works, I find the ability of Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze to assemble such a superb range of authors and have them produce such high quality chapters for the third volume of Cambridge History of the Second World War to be nothing short of remarkable.' G. Kurt Piehler, Journal of World History
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A global and authoritative account of the social, economic and cultural facets of the Second World War.
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,
19391945: 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, 19391945 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.
Michael Geyer is Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. His recent publications include the edited volume Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Adam Tooze is Professor of Modern German History at Yale University. His published works include Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, and The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 19161931.
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