The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0691145067 ISBN 13: 9780691145068

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2010

Riassunto

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 bloc centered in northeast Asia, the mobilization 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 Wan-yao 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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L'autore

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.

Contenuti

	Preface
	Introduction: Japan's Wartime Empire: Problems and Issues
Ch. 1	Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea	3
Ch. 2	The Kominka Movement in Taiwan and Korea: Comparisons and Interpretations	40
Ch. 3	Imagined Empire: The Cultural Construction of Manchukuo	71
Ch. 4	Managing Occupied Manchuria, 1931-1934	97
Ch. 5	Creating a Modern Enclave Economy: The Economic Integration of Japan, Manchuria, and North China, 1932-1945	136
Ch. 6	The Yen Bloc, 1931-1941	171
Ch. 7	Nanshin: The "Southward Advance," 1931-1941, as a Prelude to the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia	189
Ch. 8	Anomaly or Model? Independent Thailand's Role in Japan's Asian Strategy, 1941-1943	243
Ch. 9	Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire	274
Ch. 10	The "Comfort Women"	305
Ch. 11	The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan's Wartime Empire	324
Ch. 12	Reflections on the Japanese and German Empires of World War II	335
	Contributors	363
	Index	367

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0691145067
• ISBN 13: 9780691145068
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 428
• Redattore: Duus Peter