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Book SynopsisOffering a global account of the long' World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war. Arguing instead that while some aspects of the war did end abruptly in 1945, in many corners of the world war' bled directly and raggedly into the postwar' such as Allied Occupation in Italy, the civil war in Greece, the rise of US hegemony and struggles for national liberation in India.
From World War to Postwar shows how critical developments in the latter half of the 20th century were a direct result of the Second World War, and reconceptualizes the conflict as an intersecting series of regional wars as well as an overarching world war. Offering new ways to think about how the war' shaped the second half of the 20th century, this book reaches into those regions often overlooked in the study of WWII. Showing how wartime relations between the US and Latin
Table of Contents1. The Dawn of the American Century 2. Hegemony Qualified: The Soviet Union, China, and the Passage from War to Cold War 3. Latin America: Bedrock of US Hegemony 4. The Axis Powers: From Defeated Enemies to Key Allies 5. War and Revolution in China, India, and Southeast Asia 6. Britain, France, and the End of Empire 7. Winds of Change in Africa and the Middle East 8. Conclusions: the Thickening Anthropocene, Liberal Internationalism, and its Discontents Bibliography
