War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century

Global Conflicts

Sandra Barkhof, Angela K. Smith

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Routledge
14 October 2024

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Military history; Refugees & political asylum

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

Human displacement has always been a consequence of war, written into the myths and histories of centuries of warfare. However, the global conflicts of the twentieth century brought displacement to civilizations on an unprecedented scale, as the two World Wars shifted participants around the globe. Although driven by political disputes between European powers, the consequences of Empire ensured that Europe could not contain them. Soldiers traversed continents, and civilians often followed them, or found themselves living in territories ruled by unexpected invaders. Both wars saw fighting in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, and few nations remained neutral. Both wars saw the mass upheaval of civilian populations as a consequence of the fighting. Displacements were geographical, cultural, and psychological; they were based on nationality, sex/gender or age. They produced an astonishing range of human experience, recorded by the participants in different ways. This book brings together a collection of inter-disciplinary works by scholars who are currently producing some of the most innovative and influential work on the subject of displacement in war, in order to share their knowledge and interpretations of historical and literary sources. The collection unites historians and literary scholars in addressing the issues of war and displacement from multiple angles. Contributors draw on a wealth of primary source materials and resources including archives from across the world, military records, medical records, films, memoirs, diaries and letters, both published and private, and fictional interpretations of experience.

Edited by: Sandra Barkhof, Angela K. Smith
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032923598
ISBN 10: 1032923598
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sandra Barkhof is a Lecturer at Plymouth University. Angela K. Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader) at Plymouth University.

Reviews for War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century: Global Conflicts

""This volume brings together historians and literary scholars in an ambitious exercise addressing the geographical, cultural, and psychological displacements that the editors argue were a universal experience of the twentieth century’s global wars...This volume stands out, however, in its foregrounding of the experience of war as the primary object of analysis."" - Siobhan Peeling, University of Nottingham, UK