Centennial perspectives [electronic resource] / edited by Rotem Kowner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kowner, Rotem.

Series:

Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--History.

Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.

Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912.

Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Place of Publication:

Folkestone, Kent, U.K. : Global Oriental, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the growing number of publications on the Russo-Japanese War, an abundance of questions and issues related to this topic remain unsolved, or call for a reexamination. This 30-chapter volume, the first in the two-volume project Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, provides a comprehensive reexamination of the origins of the conflict, the various dimensions of the nineteen-month conflagration, the legacy of the war, and its place in the history of the twentieth century. Such an enterprise is not only timely but unique. It has benefited from a multinational team of thirty-two scholars from twelve nations representing a broad disciplinary background. The majority of them focus on topics never researched before and without exception provide a novel and critical view of the war. This reexamination is, of course, facilitated by a century-long perspective as well as an impressive assortment of primary and secondary sources, many of them unexplored and, in a number of cases, unavailable earlier.

Contents:

pt. 1. Origins

pt. 2. The War

pt. 3. Reactions and postwar repercussions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Centennial perspectives.

Regional issues and diplomacy, economics and image.

ISBN:

1-282-08908-0

9786612089084

90-04-21343-0

OCLC:

753480436