| World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919 1930 Contributor(s): Dickinson, Frederick R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107472180 ISBN-13: 9781107472181 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $76.50 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: December |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 952.032 |
| Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare |
| Physical Information: 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919 1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. Taking World War I as his anchor, Dickinson examines the structural foundations of a new Japan, discussing the country's wholehearted participation in new post-war projects of democracy, internationalism, disarmament and peace. Dickinson proposes that Japan's renewed drive for military expansion in the 1930s marked less a failure of Japan's interwar culture than the start of a tumultuous domestic debate over the most desirable shape of Japan's twentieth-century world. This stimulating study will engage students and researchers alike, offering a unique, global perspective of interwar Japan." |