{"product_id":"the-greater-second-world-war-global-perspectives-9781501780653","title":"The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking 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\u003ci\u003e The Greater Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Marco Maria Aterrano, Th. W. Bottelier, Pablo del Hierro, Alexandre Fortes, Kelly A. Hammond, Ashley Jackson, Naina Manjrekar, David Motadel, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Martin Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew N. Buchanan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501780653","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43962531119241,"sku":"9781501780653","price":58.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6498aeae-a450-455a-bbe3-7809c856ab18.jpg?v=1746510028","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-greater-second-world-war-global-perspectives-9781501780653","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}