1st Edition
An Imperial World at War The British Empire, 1939–45
1. The Second World War as an Imperial Conflict (Ashley Jackson) 2. Guided Development versus New Deal Internationalism (Simon Davis) 3. Japanese Propaganda in Occupied British Asia during the Second World War (Felicia Yap) 4. Italian Somalia under British Rule: Between Liberation and Occupation, 1941-49 (Annalisa Urbano) 5. ‘Africa’s Hong Kong’: Sierra Leone and the Second World War (Andrew Stewart) 6. Citizen-Soldiers in the Colonial World: The British Army in India, 1940-45 (Andrew Muldoon) 7. Second World War Remembrance and Commemoration in West Africa (Oliver Coates) 8. Protecting Which States and Bodies?: Developing Civil Defence in an Imperial Context (Susan Grayzel) 9. Gold and Dollars: Canada, South Africa and British War Finance, 1939-1945 (Iain Johnston) 10. British Retention of Japanese Troops in South-east Asia after the Second World War (Euan McKay) 11. Mixable and Match-able Army Formations (Douglas Delaney) 12. Nazi-Hunting in India on the Eve of the Second World War (Benjamin Zachariah)
Biography
Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College Oxford. He specializes in the history of the British Empire, particularly during times of war.
Yasmin Khan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford, based in the Department for Continuing Education. Her work focuses on British India, decolonisation and refugees. She has most recently published The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War (Bodley Head, 2015).
Gajendra Singh is Lecturer in Modern South Asian History at the University of Exeter and author of The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers in Two World Wars: Between Self and Sepoy (Bloomsbury, 2014).
