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  3. The Cambridge History of the Second World War
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  • Volume 3: Total War: Economy, Society and Culture
  • Edited by Michael Geyer, University of Chicago, Adam Tooze, Yale University, Connecticut
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781139626859
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139626859
Subjects:
American History: General Interest, British History: General Interest, Military History, History, Twentieth Century Regional History
Collections:
Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - British & European History, Cambridge Histories - American History, Cambridge Histories - Asian History, Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
Series:
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
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Book description

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.

Reviews

'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 Source: 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 Source: Journal of World History

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Contents
  • 27 - Landscapes of destructionCapturing images and creating memory through photography
    pp 807-809
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    Summary

    The UNESCO exhibition captured the conscious and sustained efforts in the aftermath of the Second World War to put human rights at the centre of projects of moral reconstruction. The American and Canadian Bar Associations undertook a project focused on the international law of the future involving a veritable who's who of international lawyers in a two-year wartime study that sought to articulate how law could lay 'the bases of a just and enduring world peace'. Taken together what is most striking about the international bills of rights drafted in the wartime period is the expansive catalogue of individual civil, economic, social and political rights they put on the table and the growing certainty that post-war moral reconstruction required their transnational protection. If the post-war effort to put human rights at the centre of projects of moral reconstruction had reached its end times, its legacies for more contemporary expressions of global morality continue to run very deep.

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