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Imperial eclipse : Japan's strategic thinking about continental Asia before August 1945 /

"The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's capitulatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koshiro, Yukiko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The World of Japan's Eurasian-Pacific War.
  • Part I. The Place of Russia in Prewar Japan. Communist Ideology and Alliance with the Soviet Union ; Culture and Race: Russians in the Japanese Empire.
  • Part II. Future of East Asia after the Japanese Empire. Mao's Communist Revolution: Who Will Rule China? ; International Rivalry over Divided Korea: Who to Replace Japan?.
  • Part III. Ending the War and Beyond. Cold War Rising: Observing US-Soviet Dissonance Diplomatic Charades with the Soviet Union ; Military Showdown: Ending the War Without Two-Front Battles ; Japan's Surrender: Views of the Nation.
  • Part IV. Inventing Japan's War: Eurasian Eclipse. Memories and Narratives of Japan's War ; Epilogue. Toward a New Understanding of Japan's Eurasian-Pacific War.