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

A global and authoritative account of the social, economic and cultural facets of the Second World War.

Michael Geyer (Edited by), Adam Tooze (Edited by)

9781108406413, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 November 2017

848 pages, 17 b/w illus. 28 colour illus. 20 tables
22 x 13.6 x 4 cm, 1.23 kg

'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

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.

Subject Areas: Second World War [HBWQ], Military history [HBW], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]