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Race and Power in the Pacific War
Describes the "Race" war fought in the Pacific during W.W. II and examines the propaganda which contributed to a war without mercy....
Essays on History, Culture and Race
This collection of essays highlights the resemblances between wartime, postwar and contemporary Japan. The essays are particularly concerned with the ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize E...
Japan in the Modern World
Historian John W. Dower’s celebrated investigations into modern Japanese history, World War II, and U.S.–Japanese relations have earned him critic...
Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America's preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences ...
War and Terror Since World War II
“Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire” (Seym...
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Seven Basic Bibliographies
The Photographs of John Swope
As one of the first American photographers to set foot on Japanese soil at the end of World War II, even before Japan had officially surrendered, John...
The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945...
Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954
This detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister has had a favorable reception in the United States and has sold widely in translation in Jap...
U.S. Decisions for Asia
Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945
An astonishing survey of the use of fashion and textiles as powerful propaganda tools in the Second World War era...
Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931 - 1945 : Gallery Guide
丸木位里と丸木俊の芸術
Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
Visualizing modernism in prewar Japan Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country towar...
Ground Zero 1945
After the United States detonated an atomic bomb at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the U.S. government restricted the circulation of images of the bomb'...
A Letter from Japan presents 114 color plates, some of which, by way of contrast and background, cover Swope's work as a Hollywood photographer, his L...
Contains mainly discussions from a conference held at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1970....