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…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics, and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War 2012 Tonio A. Andrade (History, Emory University), Ways of War: Toward a Global…
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?…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …on Inciting Violence in Post-Uprising Tunisia Robert Zeinstra (History, Princeton University), Bush War: Environmental Reckonings of Zimbabwe’s Liberation War 2018 Adèle Blazquez (Social Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences…
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…
Reluctance to Back Down Is No Reason to Fight …ongoing war between the US, Israel, and Iran, HFG revisits the research of 2021 HFG Emerging Scholar Joshua Schwartz, who studies how reputation factors into states’ decisions to wage war….
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…