Remembering and Representing the Second World War: The American Experience in World War II

ISBN-13: 9780415940399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 352 str.

Walter Hixson

Opis

This collection of facsimile reprints brings together the most significant scholarship focusing on the origins, evolution, outcome, legacies and representations of the most significant conflict in the 20th century, and one that transformed US history. The collection contextualizes the transformative force of international events and American decisions in the years leading to conflict that ultimately brought the United States into the war in Europe and in the Pacific. These decisions catapulted the United States out of economic depression, political isolation, social conservativism and into a role as global actor that left the US in a position of unprecedented global power and international influence. Articles examine the character of the American war effort and its diplomatic and military decision-making. Finally, the collection documents the changing of US society, from the lives of workers and minorities to industrial and political elites and how these years still hold strong influence on the nation's memory, its self-understanding and its depiction in popular culture and other forms of representation.