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DESCRIPTION:This panel asks what happens when we the Second World War by fo
 regrounding perspectives that sit at the edges of empire\, nation\, and hi
 storical memory. Together\, the papers trace how people far from the well-
 known narrative epicenters nonetheless experienced the war as an intimate\
 , dislocating\, and world-shaping event. One paper examines British effort
 s to mobilize West African troops for the Burma Campaign\, revealing a web
  of contradictions: African soldiers trained for desert warfare but deploy
 ed to jungles\; colonial racial hierarchies so rigid that exiled Polish of
 ficers were drafted to lead them\; and a conflict imagined for the Sahara 
 that unfolded in Southeast Asia. A second paper widens the lens across Wes
 t Africa\, showing how both soldiers and civilians encountered shifting im
 perial loyalties\, coercive mobilization\, and new political ideas that un
 settled colonial authority. A third paper shifts to rural north China\, wh
 ere locust plagues\, famine\, and fractured occupation regimes forced comm
 unities into parallel wartime struggles largely absent from global narrati
 ves. The final microhistory follows three Polish-Jewish-South African brot
 hers whose wartime service shaped their contested positions within aparthe
 id’s racial order. Together\, these papers illuminate WWII as a genuinel
 y global war—one lived and interpreted from profoundly liminal and margi
 nalized spaces.
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LOCATION:Room 106 (Seats 105)
SUMMARY:Margins and Legacies of WWII as a Global War - Trevor Getz\, Heathe
 r Salter\, Michele Louro\, Roy Doron\, Jonathan T. Reynolds\, John  Willia
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URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/CN3RAW/
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