Pub Date: March 17, 1999
Dewey: 952.04
LCCN: 98022133
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.90" H x 9.10" L x 6.40" W ( 2.55 lbs) 678 pages
BISAC Categories:
History | Asia | Japan | Wars and Conflicts | World War II General | Modern | 20th Century General
Description: A definitive history of the transformation of Japanese society under American occupation after World War II. 40 photos.
Brief description: John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online "Visualizing Cultures" project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.