Pub Date : 2020-08-31DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1811472
Tamara P. Trošt, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc
While most studies of war propaganda assume a consistent nationalist ideology, 1990s war propaganda in the former Yugoslavia was produced against a backdrop of a yet-undismantled socialist ideological system. This article examines the strategies employed in transforming and manipulating Second World War (SWW) narratives in order to spread propaganda in three of the former Yugoslav republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia) during the 1990s wars. It outlines five discursive strategies used by textbook authors in tweaking SWW narratives to fit present-day objectives. Despite an obvious effort invested by elites, we find that the revisions were done far from a systematic manner, often resulting in chronologically and ideologically incoherent narratives. We demonstrate that history rewriting in war-time is frequently a piecemeal, haphazard project, and point to the relevance of examining the broader structural transformations within which narrative rewriting occurs.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-27DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1811473
S. Mackenzie
The history of the Royal Air Force has been chronicled and analysed extensively in recent decades. Popular writers, niche experts, and academic scholars have all made contributions of one kind or another. There remains, however, an overall tendency to concentrate on the Second World War and a strong inclination to focus on operational matters. Academics thinking about studying the RAF might consider applying some of the approaches already adopted within the broader historical profession to studying the past of the world’s first independent air force.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-27DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1811471
D. Littlewood
A key impetus behind establishing the New Zealand Labour Party during 1916 had been to present a more unified front against conscription. Yet in 1940, it was the First Labour Government – comprising several leaders of the 1916–1918 resistance – that decided men should again be compelled to serve. While recent studies have described this as a swift and reluctant change in attitudes occasioned by the Allied defeats in France, numerous documents and speeches suggest otherwise. Senior ministers had in fact accepted the notion of wartime conscription by 1938, before waiting for a moment when the political and military circumstances favoured its introduction.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-26DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1811468
Miguel Dantas da Cruz
The regular army in colonial Brazil was simultaneously a tool of imperial policy (seen as a way to impose metropolitan will) and an institution that, like many others, integrated in its ranks, and in senior positions, settlers, sometimes disgruntled settlers. This article deals with this apparent ambiguity. It examines the prosopography of officers who served in late-eighteenth-century colonial Brazil, considering their origin, social standing, military experience and even political leanings. Its findings reveal an institution that, in spite of its imperial function and the looming internal tensions, seemed to have contributed to the cohesiveness of the Empire.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-11DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1786890
J. Smith
Though often marginalised in histories of the Second World War, South Africa, in addition to contributing manpower and economic support to the Allied war effort, was a transport hub and a site for military training. Millions of Allied servicemen and women spent time in South Africa, which became an important node in both imperial and Allied wartime networks. Examining the varied experiences of Allied personnel of colour in South Africa, with a focus on the Māori battalion, this essay, working towards a transnational social history of the conflict, highlights the ways in which wartime hospitality both reflected and subverted ideologies and practices of racial segregation.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-11DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1786894
Y. Khan
This provocation stimulates reflection on the Eurocentricity of Second World War histories and reflects on how new work can extend the boundaries of the subjects of the war. It argues that women in the British Empire were affected by the war in ways which have, thus far, been under-appreciated.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-09DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1790473
Urvi Khaitan
In British India in 1943, a rapidly escalating Allied coal crisis resulted in the lifting of a six-year-old ban on women’s employment underground. Over 70,000 low-caste and adivasi (indigenous) women, battling the war-induced Bengal Famine, sustained production levels and prevented the monthly loss of 385,000 tons of coal between August 1943 and February 1946. Their employment sparked unprecedented outrage among the public, in the press, and in parliaments, generating a transnational discourse on Indian women workers for the very first time. Meanwhile the desperate colonial government disciplined miners through the threat of starvation, information that has so far remained concealed.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-09DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1786896
C. Pennell, D. Todman
This special issue, stemming out of the AHRC-funded Teaching and Learning War Research Network (2017–2020), is published at an important juncture in cultural memory: as the focus of public commemorative events in Britain and the Commonwealth shifts from the First to the Second World War, including the Holocaust. Not only does it showcase exciting and cutting-edge research, but it also aims to stimulate conversation and ‘forward-thinking’ about commemorative cycles over the next two-and-a-half decades (2025–2045). The three research articles and four provocations focus, in different ways, on the question of ‘hidden histories’ in the expectation of a need to ensure that diversity, multi-perspectivity, complexity, and contention remain at the heart of ‘national’ commemorative processes (whether in Britain or elsewhere).
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1786892
T. Cook
In early 1942, 23,000 Japanese Canadians on the West Coast were forcibly relocated against their will to the interior of Canada after Japan entered the war against the Allies. This forced relocation left deep scars in that community. Decades later, Japanese Canadians mounted a redress campaign for an official apology and financial restitution. This provocation examines that campaign and explores how it has shaped Canada’s constructed memory of the Second World War.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2020.1786895
Vikki Hawkins
Using Imperial War Museums’ redeveloped Second World War Galleries as a case study, this provocation discusses the ways in which refocussing outmoded British narratives to a transnational viewpoint and using the interpretive framework of ‘total war’ can help us to deliver new, authoritative and multifaceted narratives where ‘hidden’ histories can be displayed, and scrutinised, in plain sight.
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