| Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Contributor(s): Dower, John W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393320278 ISBN-13: 9780393320275 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: A foremost historian examines Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II, giving readers the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted. 75 illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 952.04 |
| LCCN: 98022133 |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.15" W x 9.2" (1.79 lbs) 688 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 34818 Reading Level: 13.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 47.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific, gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order. John W. Dower is the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for War Without Mercy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dower, John W.: - John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online "Visualizing Cultures" project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. |