Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History With Documents and Essays (Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Hardcover

Iriye, Akira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312218184 ISBN 13: 9780312218188

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

Assembles some 30 primary documents, including proposals, memoranda, decrypted messages, and imperial conference reports, presenting diplomatic exchanges from both American and Japanese perspectives to determine how and why the US and Japan went to war in 1941. A detailed introduction provides background on Japanese aggression in China and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and economic unrest and isolationism in the US. Readings add an interpretive dimension, placing Pearl Harbor in global context. Essays from the perspectives of various countries involved explain how countries applied pressure, offered assistance, and affected negotiations. Includes b&w photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Review:

'The author urges students not to read the documents passively but to consider how they might have acted or responded in the context of the time. Students are thus urged to view the documents both from the outside as historians and from the inside as imagined participants. This is an interesting and stimulating pedagogical device.' - Peter Duus, Stanford University

About the Author:

AKIRA IRIYE is Professor of History at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312218184
• ISBN 13: 9780312218188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258