Andrew N. Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor eds., "The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor, The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, 2025)

This

ambitious edited collection encourages readers to think in bigger ways

about the global Second World War. That includes a wider frame in space

and time, but also a larger geopolitical perspective of the war as a

world-system crisis and an expanded social perspective on who fought the

war and why. A team of international scholars take on this task in

chapters ranging from the global alliance system and colonial

mobilization to studies of particular cities and dockyards.

In a

wide-ranging conversation with both editors, we discuss questions of

imperialism, the rise and limits of US global hegemony, the 'ragged