Political Economy of Memory: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of the Nigeria-Biafra War …“Biafran War,” “Nigerian Civil War,” “War of National Unity,” “War against Infidels,” the Nigeria-Biafra War was a global event, generally regarded as a defining moment in the postcolonial global order…
Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War …save lives on the battlefield—has led to significant underestimation of the costs of modern war. The costs of war, both human and financial, are traditionally conceptualized in a time-bound manner….
Malvinas/Falklands War: Argentine Experiences of the 1982 Conflict Through Letters, War Diaries, and Amateur Photographs by Soldiers and Civilians Mobilized During the War The objective of my project was to study the war experience that Argentine conscripted soldiers went through during the Malvinas war in 1982. The material basis for the study were…
A New Kind of War: A History of the 1946–1949 Greek Civil War …deprivations, and fear? What was the impact of the civil war in local and national social and financial networks? What were the social and political legacies of the civil war?…
Toward a Transnational History of the Origins of World War I …Europeans experienced the war in remarkably similar ways. This study is an examination of how a war with a small cause developed into a total world war by its first…
War and Economic Development in Vietnam and Sierra Leone …rates, consumption levels, or population density over twenty-five years after the end of wartime bombing. A second publication, “War and Local Collective Action in Sierra Leone” (co-author John Bellows), in…
Sherman was Right: The Experience of AEF Soldiers in the Great War This project analyses why Americans fought on the Western Front during the Great War. The goal of the research and manuscript is to give voices to the thousands of servicemen…
When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War Funding by the HFG enabled vital fieldwork in six African countries (Angola, Congo, Eritrea, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda), which helped detail the day-by-day, week-by-week chronicle of Africa’s Great War, a…
“Violence and the Law at War”: Dr. Craig Jones …the Law at War” examines the legality of violence and the weaponization of international law. With a focus on the U.S. and Israel and wars in Iraq and Palestine as…
Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars …War, a paradigmatic case of a conventional civil war. Using this civil war constitutes a dispute to the neglect of historical cases in the study of civil war violence, which…
