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Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II  Cover Image Book Book

Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II / John W. Dower.

Dower, John W. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0393320278 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 676 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co./New Press, 2000.

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General Note:
Originally published: New York : W.W.Norton & Co./New Press,1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [565]-650) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. Victor and vanquished -- ch. 1. Shattered lives -- ch. 2. Gifts from heaven -- pt. 2. Transcending despair -- ch. 3. Kyodatsu: exhaustion and despair -- ch. 4. Cultures of defeat -- ch. 5. Bridges of language -- pt. 3. Revolutions -- ch. 6. Neocolonial revolution -- ch. 7. Embracing revolution -- ch. 8. Making revolution -- pt. 4. Democracies -- ch. 9. Imperial democracy: driving the wedge -- ch. 10. Imperial democracy: descending partway from heaven -- ch. 11. Imperial democracy: evading responsibility -- ch. 12. Constitutional democracy: GHQ writes a new national charter -- ch. 13. Constitutional democracy: Japanizing the American draft -- ch. 14. Censored democracy: policing the new taboos -- pt. 5. Guilts -- ch. 15. Victor's justice, loser's justice -- ch. 16. What do you tell the dead when you lose? -- pt. 6. Reconstructions -- ch. 17. Engineering growth.
Subject: Japan > History > 1945-

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