Laura E. Hein, Mark Selden

Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (eBook, PDF)

American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317465959
• Artikelnr.: 42366829

Autorenporträt

Laura E. Hein, Mark Selden

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction
1: Commemoration and Silence
II: Commemoration and Censorship
2: Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia
3: Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki
4: Making Things Visible
5: Commemoration Controversies
6: Mass Death in Miniature
7: Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline
III: Contending Constituencies
8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
9: The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches
10: Memory Matters
11: Were We the Enemy?
12: Remembering Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory
IV: Afterword
13: Learning about Patriotism, Decency, and the Bomb