Globalizing World War II

In this talk, Andrew Buchanan will discuss the challenge of writing a genuinely global history of the overlapping series of conflicts we know collectively as “World War II.” In particular, he will examine the connections between the global, imperial, national and local, think about spatial and temporal frameworks, and discuss issues of hybridity and connectivity.

Andrew Buchanan teaches global and military history at the University of Vermont. He is the author of several articles on military, political and cultural aspects of World War II. His first book, American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014 and his second, World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953 was published by Wiley in 2019.