Cornell Global Perspectives

＂The chapters in this book build on a growing body of scholarly literature that challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional wars and revolutions that precede (from 1931) and follow (to the mid 1950s) the ＂central paroxysm＂ defined by the active participation of the United States. This approach works to decenter US- and Europe-centric accounts of the war and to highlight ＂bottom-up＂ agency in ways that destabilize conventional narratives＂--

Andrew Buchanan teaches global and military history at the University of Vermont. He has written extensively on World War II, including ＂Globalizing the Second World War＂ in Past & Present and articles in American Quarterly, Diplomatic History, Journal of Contemporary History and other journals. His most recent book, From World War to Postwar was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.

Ruth Lawlor teaches diplomatic and military history at Cornell. Her book on sexual violence and the US military justice system in World War II is forthcoming with Oxford University Press, and her writing has appeared in the Journal of Military History, Diplomatic History, and Modern American History.