The Peoples’ War?: The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective 9780228015895
A fresh approach to understanding the diverse experiences of the Second World War. The Peoples’ War? offers alternativ
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Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
IntroductionIn Search of a New History of the Second World War
Theme One Problematizing “People’s Wars”
1 World War, Worldwide Mobilization
Theme Two Mobilization and Remobilization for “People’s Wars”
2 Fascist Warfare on the Home Front
3 Building an Enemy
4 Growing Up in Kaifeng
5 “What the Soldier Thinks”
Theme Three “People’s Wars” as Drivers of Change
6 Health Care and Disease in Italy’s War, 1940–1945
7 The Second World War and the New Deal for American Science
8 Edward Murrow and the “Little People” of the Blitz
Theme Four Wars among the People
9 German Anti-partisan Warfare
10 Italian Occupation Policies and Counterinsurgency Campaigns in France and in the Balkans, 1940–1943
11 Divided Loyalties
12 Spawning Fratricide
13 Gender and Community during War
Theme Five The History and Memory of “People’s Wars”
14 Framing Myths of the Second World War through Ministry of Information Propaganda Posters
15 Beyond a “People’s War”
Contributors
Index
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