World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930

ISBN-13: 9781107037700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 234 str.

Frederick R Dickinson

Opis

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."

Recenzje

'Dickinson provides us with a thought-provoking reminder not to read the past in light of what we know came next. This book, in combination with his next, will become important … for students and specialists of interwar diplomacy, politics and culture in Japan.' Jeffrey P. Bayliss, Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. World War I as anchor; 2. Structural foundations of a new Japan; 3. Internationalism; 4. Democracy; 5. Disarmament; 6. World power; 7. Culture of peace; 8. Hamaguchi Osachi and the triumph of the new Japan; Conclusion; Bibliography.