S. C. M. Paine

The Japanese Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Charting the rise and fall of Japan, the model developing country of the nineteenth century, the overthrow of the traditional Asian balance of power, and enduring animosities, this is an essential guide for those interested in Asian and world history, comparative politics, international relations, security studies and Asian politics today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781107676169
• ISBN-10: 1107676169
• Artikelnr.: 45330664

Autorenporträt

S. C. M. Paine, William S. Sims Professor at the United States Naval War College, has spent eight of the last thirty years engaged in research and language study in Japan, Taiwan, China, Russia, and Australia. Her funding has included two Fulbright Fellowships along with fellowships from Japan, Taiwan, and Australia. She is the author of The Wars for Asia (Cambridge, 2012), which received the Richard W. Leopold Prize and the PROSE Award for European and World History, and was longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, and Imperial Rivals (1996), which received the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. The Meiji generation
2. The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5)
3. The Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
4. The transition from a maritime to a continental security paradigm
5. The Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-41)
6. The General Asian War (1941-5)
7. Japan betwixt maritime and continental world orders
Selected bibliography
Index.