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The Blue-Eyed Enemy : Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945

The Blue-Eyed Enemy is a comprehensive account of the interwoven histories of the three major archipelago-nations of the West Pacific during the years of the Second World War. Theodore Friend examines Japanese colonialism in Indonesia and the Philippines as an example of recurring patterns of domina...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Friend, Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Blue-Eyed Enemy is a comprehensive account of the interwoven histories of the three major archipelago-nations of the West Pacific during the years of the Second World War. Theodore Friend examines Japanese colonialism in Indonesia and the Philippines as an example of recurring patterns of domination and repression in that region. He depicts Japanese rule in Greater East Asia as expressive of the folly of the general who exhorted his troops ""to annihilate the blue-eyed enemy and their black slaves."" At the same time he clearly shows where the return of Western power aimed at new
Descripción Física:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781400859467