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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

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Availability:In StockContributor:John W. DowerPublish date:2000-06-17Pages:688
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393320275ISBN-10:393320278UPC:9780393320275Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, Wars & Conflicts, ModernBook Topic:Japan, World War II, 20th CenturyAward:2000 Bancroft Prize Winner - History AwardSize:9.20 x 6.15 x 1.16 inchesWeight:1.7924Product ID:SCF1X9SBRA

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393320275ISBN-10:393320278UPC:9780393320275Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, Wars & Conflicts, ModernBook Topic:Japan, World War II, 20th CenturyAward:2000 Bancroft Prize Winner - History AwardSize:9.20 x 6.15 x 1.16 inchesWeight:1.7924Product ID:SCF1X9SBRA
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.
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🏆 2000 Bancroft Prize Winner - History Award

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