A global and authoritative account of the social, economic and cultural facets of the Second World War.

Introduction to Volume 3 Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; Part I. Political Economy: Introduction to Part I Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 1. The economics of the war with Germany Adam Tooze and Jamie Martin; 2. Finance for war in Asia and its aftermath Greg Huff; 3. War of the factories Jeff Fear; 4. Controlling resources: coal, iron-ore and oil in the Second World War David Edgerton; 5. The human fuel: food as global commodity and local scarcity Lizzie Collingham; 6. Knowledge economies Cathryn Carson; 7. Seaborne transport Michael Miller; Part II. The Social Practice of Total War, 1939-1945: Introduction to Part II Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 8. Death and survival in the Second World War Richard Bessel; 9. Battles for morale: an entangled history of total war in Europe, 1939-1945 Jochen Hellbeck; 10. The war of the cities: industrial labouring forces Rüdiger Hachtman; 11. The war of the villages: the interwar agrarian crisis and the Second World War Adam Tooze; 12. Hors de combat: mobilization and immobilization in total war Geoffrey Cocks; 13. Environments, states and societies at war Christopher Pearson; Part III. The Moral Economy of War: Introduction to Part III Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 14. Just and unjust wars: military - civil society - states Michael Geyer; 15. Wars of displacement: exile and uprooting in the 1940s Yasmin Khan; 16. Sexuality and sexual violence Sabine Frühstück; 17. A war for liberty: the law of conscientious objection in the Second World War Jeremy Kessler; 18. Bringing the dogs of war to heel: pacifism in the Second World War Devin Pendas; 19. Humanitarian politics and governance: international responses to the civilian toll in the Second World War Stephen Porter; Part IV. Illusive Peace: From War to Cold War: Introduction to Part IV Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 20. The rise and fall of central planning David Engerman; 21. Two types of new deal. The Second World War and the renegotiation of the social contract in Britain, Europe and America Timothy B. Smith; 22. Nationalism, decolonization, geopolitics and the Asian postwar Rana Mitter; 23. Making peace as a project of moral reconstruction Mark Bradley; Part V. In the Aftermath of Catastrophic Destruction: Introduction to Part V Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze; 24. Interpretations of catastrophe Peter Gordon; 25. The ghosts of war Monica Black; 26. Popular memory, popular culture: the war in the postwar world Lucy Noakes; 27. The Second World War in global memory space Jie-Hyun Lim; 28. Landscapes of destruction: capturing images and creating memory through photography Dorothee Brantz; Bibliographical essay; Index.