Home Fronts of the Empire-Commonwealth: Imperial Interconnections and Wartime Social Transformations during the Second World War

帝国联邦的后方：第二次世界大战期间帝国的相互联系和战时社会转型

• 批准号: AH/J000019/2
• 负责人: Yasmin Khan
• 金额: $ 16.57万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ000019%2F2
• 关键词: Home; Fronts; Empire; Commonwealth; Imperial

The Second World War disrupted millions of people in the form of military recruitment, civil labour conscription, food shortages, savage fighting, propaganda, and political competition. Imperial power connected remote regions to global economic, political, and military currents. The incredible diversity of the war experience of the subjects of the Empire-Commonwealth, and the great importance of the empire in defining Britain's war, is only slowly coming to be properly understood. The trans-national effects of the war are often regarded simplistically as one-way relationships between metropole and periphery, that stress the role of non-Western combatants in Europe but do not go further to enrich our understanding of the vast dependency of Europe on imperial supplies, people and resources during wartime. This project aims to considerably broaden our understanding of the full impact of war in the widest sense by investigating imperial interconnections and social transformations during the Second World War in South Asia and the Middle East from 1939-45 by showing the lasting developmental changes that accompanied the war on some of the most important imperial 'home fronts.'This project aims to examine the social history of the second world war from the perspective of South Asia and the Middle East, by concentrating on the perspective of war from these 'home fronts' and analysis of three major themes: firstly, the imperial and transnational connections which enabled the fighting of the war, such as shipping and supply networks, migrant labour and factory production. Secondly, the project seeks to go beyond conventional military history to analyze the experience of non-combatants and the links between civilians and wartime in these regions; for instance the role of South Asian and Middle Eastern labourers, nurses, transport workers and factory workers. We will ask whether there may have been closer quotidian interactions between the military and local imperial subjects than is usually depicted. Thirdly, the project hopes to highlight the social transformation wrought by wartime, for instance, the development generated by war through the investment of indigenous capital, the building of infrastructure and development of cities and factories. In short, the total and transforming nature of war during empire will be better stressed and illustrated in a way that goes beyond simply 'social' or 'military' history to present a more integrated and holisitic appraisal of how events on the ground in South Asia and the Middle East intersected with wartime transformations.

第二次世界大战以征兵、民事劳工征兵、粮食短缺、野蛮战斗、宣传和政治竞争的形式扰乱了数百万人。帝国权力将偏远地区与全球经济、政治和军事潮流联系起来。帝国-英联邦臣民战争经历的难以置信的多样性，以及帝国在定义英国战争中的巨大重要性，只是慢慢地才被正确理解。战争的跨国影响通常被简单地视为大都市和外围国家之间的单向关系，强调非西方战斗人员在欧洲的作用，但没有进一步丰富我们对欧洲在战时对帝国供应，人员和资源的巨大依赖的理解。该项目旨在通过调查1939年至1945年第二次世界大战期间南亚和中东地区的帝国互联和社会变革，通过展示伴随战争的一些最重要的帝国“家庭战线”的持久发展变化，大大拓宽我们对战争的全面影响的理解。“本项目旨在从南亚和中东的角度审视第二次世界大战的社会历史，集中于从这些“大后方”的角度看待战争，并分析三个主要主题：第一，使战争得以进行的帝国和跨国联系，如航运和供应网络，移民劳动力和工厂生产。其次，该项目寻求超越传统的军事历史，分析这些地区非战斗人员的经历以及平民与战时之间的联系;例如南亚和中东劳工、护士、运输工人和工厂工人的作用。我们会问，军队和地方帝国臣民之间是否有比通常描述的更密切的互动。第三，该项目希望突出战争带来的社会变革，例如，通过本土资本的投资、基础设施的建设以及城市和工厂的发展，战争带来的发展。简而言之，帝国时期战争的总体性质和变革性质将得到更好的强调和说明，超越简单的“社会”或“军事”历史，对南亚和中东的地面事件如何与战时变革相结合进行更综合和整体的评估。

项目成果

I ndia and the G reat War: Colonial Fantasies, Anxieties and Discontent

印度与大战：殖民幻想、焦虑和不满

• DOI: 10.1111/sena.12097
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: Singh G

Editorial: The Empire's War in History

社论：帝国历史上的战争

• DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2014.898504
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: The Round Table
• 作者: Jackson A

The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War

战争中的印度：印度第二次世界大战的人民史

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Khan Yasmin

The Encyclopedia of Empire

帝国百科全书

• DOI: 10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe246
• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Jackson A

Military Migrants: British Service Personnel in Ceylon during the Second World War

军事移民：第二次世界大战期间驻锡兰的英国军人

• DOI: 10.3366/brw.2013.0075
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Britain and the World
• 影响因子: 0.2
• 作者: Jackson A