The world in world wars : experiences, perceptions and perspectives from Africa and Asia /

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Imprint:Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 613 pages)
Language:English
Series:Studies in global social history ; v. 5
Studies in global social history ; v. 5.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11257712
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Other authors / contributors:Liebau, Heike.
ISBN:9789004188471
9004188479
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9781283126717
9786613126719
6613126713
9789004185456
9004185453
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-602) and indexes.
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Summary:The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their intersections. Drawing substantially on new sources such as oral accounts, propaganda material and artistic representations, the publication investigates the experiences of combatants and civilians on the frontline and in the rear of the front. It studies spontaneous and organized responses manifested in pub.
Other form:Print version: World in world wars. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, ©2010 9789004185456