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Empire and Aftermath / J.W. Dower.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dower, John W., author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 84.
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 84
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prime ministers--Japan--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Japan--Foreign relations--20th century.
- Japan.
- Yoshida, Shigeru, 1878-1967.
- Yoshida, Shigeru.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1979.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 1979.
- Summary:
- This is a detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister. John Dower is one of the preminent historians of modern Japan.
- Contents:
- Remilitarization and the Domestic Conservative Conflict
- The Ikeda-Robertson Talks and the Shallow Economy
- MSA and the Two Defense Laws
- 12 THE 1954 YOSHIDA MISSION AND THE END OF AN ERA
- War-Loving America
- The Wistful ""Marshall Plan for Asia
- Aid, Trade, and the U.S. Agricultural Surplus
- The Abortive China Caper
- Era's End
- Notes
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Harvard East Asian Monographs
- Yoshida and the New Conservative Hegemony
- Constitution, Emperor, and National Polity
- Land Reform
- The Purge
- Labor
- Economic Deconcentration
- The Police
- Education
- Local Autonomy
- Domestic Peace-Keeping and the Political Left
- 10 THE SEPARATE PEACE, REARMAMENT,AND ""SUBORDINATE INDEPENDENCE
- The Decision on Post-Treaty U.S. Military Bases
- Arms in Eden
- China and the Ghosted Letter
- 11 COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN THE NEW lMPERIUM
- Stabilization,"" ""Economic Cooperation,"" and the New Bloc Economy
- Post-Occupation Conflict Within the Cooperative Framework
- Realism and Moralism: A Postscript on the Imperial Consciousness
- 6 PURSUING RAINBOWS, 1937-1941
- The Diplomacy of Conciliation, 1937-1938
- The Pipe Line and the Pendulum, 1939-1940
- The Diplomacy of Desperation, 1941
- 7 THE ""YOSHIDA ANTIWAR GROUP"" AND THE KONOE 189 MEMORIAL, 1942-1945
- The Flexible-Emissary Proposal of 1942
- YOHANSEN: Outflanking the Right
- Backstage Politicking, 1942-1945
- The Kanae Memorial
- Incarceration
- 8 ""REVOLUTION
- War, Polity, and Revolution
- Revolution Transmogrified: The American Occupation of Japan
- 9 IMPERIAL JAPAN AND THE ""NEW JAPAN
- 4 EXPLAINING THE NEW IMPERIALISM, 1931-1937
- The Manchurian Incident and the League of Nations
- Pending Appointment,"" 1932-1935
- Ambassador Grew and the Pendulum Theory
- Cabinet-Making, 1936
- Explaining Japan to America
- Opposition to Japanese-German Rapprochement
- Lessons in History and Politics for the British
- 5 THE SECRET YOSHIDA-EDEN PLAN OF 1936-1937
- Hope Ventured: The First Yoshida Plan
- Hope Disparaged: Britain's Response and Yoshida's Humiliation
- Hope Denied: The Second Yoshida Plan
- The Imperial Consciousness, 1937
- Intro
- EMPIRE AND AFTERMATH: Yoshida, Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- YOSHIDA &THE 1980S: A PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF MEIJI
- Family Trees
- Branches of Learning
- Fruits of Marriage
- 2 ""TRADITIONAL DIPLOMACY,"" 1906-1922
- Apprenticeship
- Lessons of Versailles
- Homage to the Future Sovereign
- 3 MANAGING THE EMPIRE, 1922-1930
- Managing Manchuria
- The Imperial Consciousness, 1927-1928
- Yoshida, Tanaka, and the ""Positive Policy
- Maneuvering Against the Navy, 1930
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781684172153
- 1684172152
- OCLC:
- 1001535250
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684172153 DOI
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