The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945 [Hardcover]

Peter Duus (Editor, Contributor), L. H. Gann (Contributor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0691043825 | ISBN-13: 978-0691043821 | Publication Date: March 18, 1996

With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with "The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945" (Princeton, 1983) and "The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937" (Princeton, 1989). The Japanese military takeover in Manchuria between 1931 and 1932 was a critical turning point in East Asian history. It marked the first surge of Japanese aggression beyond the boundaries of its older colonial empire and set Japan on a collision course with China and Western colonial powers from 1937 through 1945. These essays seek to illuminate some of the more significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at war: the creation of a Japanese-dominated East Asian economic block centered in northeast Asia, the mobilisation of human and physical resources in the older established areas of Japanese colonial rule, and the penetration and occupation of Southeast Asia. Introduced by Peter Duus, the volume contains four sections: Japan's Wartime Empire and the Formal Colonies (Carter J. Eckert and Wanyao Chou), Japan's Wartime Empire and Northeast Asia (Louise Young, Y. Tak Matsusaka, Ramon H. Myers, and Takafusa Nakamura), Japan's Wartime Empire and Southeast Asia (Mark R. Peattie, E. Bruce Reynolds, and Ken'ichi Goto), and Japan's Wartime Empire in Other Perspectives (George Hicks, Hideo Kobayashi, and L. H. Gann).

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About the Author

Peter Duus is William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University, Ramon H. Myers is Senior Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the East Asian Collection at the Hoover Institution, and Mark R. Peattie is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 440 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (March 18, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691043825
• ISBN-13: 978-0691043821
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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