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Mobilising the World: A New History of Inter-Allied Cooperation in the Second World War, 1939-1945

Descrizione del progetto

Uno sguardo globale alla seconda guerra mondiale

La seconda guerra mondiale fu una guerra globale, dato che vi parteciparono più di 100 milioni di persone di 30 paesi, combattendo in Africa, Asia ed Europa, nonché in alto mare. Intere società parteciparono come soldati o come lavoratori di guerra. La vittoria delle potenze alleate sarebbe stata impossibile senza un ampio coordinamento, organizzazione e pianificazione. Tuttavia, sappiamo poco su questa organizzazione straordinaria. Il progetto INTERALLIED, finanziato dall’UE, farà luce sul modo in cui gli alleati riuscirono a mobilitare i mercati globali per la guerra fra il 1939 e il 1945. Il progetto fornirà un resoconto dell’economia politica della guerra globale alleata e descriverà una storia dell’economia globale in guerra.

Obiettivo

In the Second World War, the Allies waged war on a truly global scale for the first and, one hopes, last time in history. Victory required the
mobilisation and transportation of wo/men and materiel on all continents and across four out of the Earth’s five oceans. Success would have been impossible without extensive inter-Allied coordination, organisation and planning. Starting in 1939, a system of inter-Allied organs was set up by Britain and France, whose mission it was to coordinate the supply of the Allied war effort from a common pool. It survived France’s fall in 1940 and, upon US entry in 1941, was revived. By 1942, it had evolved into a global network of military, production and logistics experts from India to Canada and South Africa to Norway, organised into a series of so-called Combined Boards and dedicated to the nuts and bolts of worldwide coalition warfare. Yet we lack a history of this extraordinary organisation. Despite the Second World War’s self-evidently global nature, the tendency to frame it in national, comparative and Eurocentric terms is very deeply entrenched. INTERALLIED, by contrast, seeks to highlight the global, transnational and interdependent character of the Allied war effort. The project asks: how did the Allies seek to couple, then uncouple their war economies, and mobilise (then demobilise) global markets for war, between 1939 and 1945? It seeks (1) to provide an account of the political economy of global Allied warfare, and thus to reach for a history of the global economy at war, which has yet to be written; (2) to advance a recent 'global turn' in Second World War studies, and thus to resist nationalistic and Eurocentric readings of the conflict, frequently deployed politically today; and (3) to produce new, practical knowledge about how societies can cope with massive shocks to their systems of supply, production and trade, and prevent damaging and wasteful competition for scarce resources.

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FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 184 707,84
Indirizzo
RUE SAINT GUILLAUME 27
75341 Paris
Francia

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Regione
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 184 707,84