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War without Mercy

Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER)

By: John Dower

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War without Mercy

Race and Power in the Pacific War (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER)

By: John Dower

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”

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Pantheon

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0307816141

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9780307816146

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

Japan in the Modern World

By: John W. Dower

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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

Japan in the Modern World

By: John W. Dower

Historian John W. Dower’s celebrated investigations into modern Japanese history, World War II, and U.S.–Japanese relations have earned him critical accolades and numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize. Now Dower returns to the major themes of his groundbreaking work, examining American and Japanese perceptions of key moments in their shared history. Both provocative and probing, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering delves into a range of subjects, including the complex role of racism on both sides of the Pacific War, the sophistication of Japanese wartime propaganda, the ways in which the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is remembered in Japan, and the story of how the postwar study of Japan in the United States and the West was influenced by Cold War politics. Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering offers urgent insights by one of our greatest interpreters of the past into how citizens of democracy should deal with their history and, as Dower writes, “the need to constantly ask what is not being asked.”

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338

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New Press, The

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1595589376

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9781595589378

Embracing Defeat

Japan In The Wake Of World War Ii

By: John W Dower

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Embracing Defeat

Japan In The Wake Of World War Ii

By: John W Dower

This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.

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692

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393320278

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9780393320275

Japan in War and Peace

Essays on History, Culture and Race

By: John W. Dower

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Japan in War and Peace

Essays on History, Culture and Race

By: John W. Dower

This collection of essays highlights the resemblances between wartime, postwar and contemporary Japan. The essays are particularly concerned with the nature of Japanese capitalism and the country's nationalistic doctrines of racial superiority.

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368

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0006863469

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9780006863465

Women in Muslim Family Law

By: John L. Esposito

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Women in Muslim Family Law

By: John L. Esposito

Expands and updates family law as it pertains to women with regard to marriage, divorce and inheritance throughout the Middle East.This second revised edition of John L. Esposito's landmark work expands and updates coverage of family law reforms -- marriage, divorce, and inheritance -- throughout the Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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180

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Syracuse University Press

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0815622783

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9780815622789

The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II

871-1216

By: John Hudson

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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II

871-1216

By: John Hudson

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge. The first full-length treatment of all aspects of the early development of the English common law in a century, featuring extensive research into the original sources that bring the era to life, and providing an interpretative account, a detailed subject analysis, and fascinating glimpses into medieval disputes. Starting with King Alfred (871-899), this book examines the particular contributions of the Anglo-Saxon period to the development of English law, including the development of a powerful machinery of royal government, significant aspects of a long-lasting court structure, and important elements of law relating to theft and violence. Until the reign of King Stephen (1135-54), these Anglo-Saxon contributions were maintained by the Norman rulers, whilst the Conquest of 1066 led to the development of key aspects of landholding that were to have a continuing effect on the emerging common law. The Angevin period saw the establishment of more routine royal administration of justice, closer links between central government and individuals in the localities, and growing bureaucratization. Finally, the later twelfth and earlier thirteenth century saw influential changes in legal expertise. The book concludes with the rebellion against King John in 1215 and the production of the Magna Carta. Laying out in exhaustive detail the origins of the English common law through the ninth to the early thirteenth centuries, this book will be essential reading for all legal historians and a vital work of reference for academics, students, and practitioners.

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981

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OUP Oxford

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0191630039

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9780191630033

Book's by John Dower

War without Mercy

War without Mercy

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

Embracing Defeat

Embracing Defeat

Japan in War and Peace

Japan in War and Peace

Women in Muslim Family Law

Women in Muslim Family Law

The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II

The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II

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