2017 - 2018

0621-9062-01
  A Global History of the Second World War From Historical and Gender Perspectives                     
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Michal ShapiraGilman-humanities449Wed1000-1400 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description

 The Second World War, encompassing six continents, was the most fatal conflict in world history. Its global impact lasted throughout the twentieth century and beyond. This seminar looks at the global history of the Second World War from historical and gender perspectives and places the history of the war within the broader history of the twentieth century. 
As a total and modern war, the Second World War brought unprecedented death and mass killing and it destroyed societies, cultures, economies, and human values. Both soldiers and civilians became targets for violence, and different governments directed everyday life, economy, and social life in innovative ways. After 1945, different societies dealt with the war's tragic legacy in a variety of ways, a process that still continues today. Topics will include: the bombing of civilians; trauma and expertise; society and economy during wartime; the experience of men, women and children on the home front and battle front; nationalism, propaganda, and citizenship; collaboration and resistance; commemoration and the memory of the war; gender and reconstruction; and the war in literature, film and photography

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