John W. Dower is the Elting E. No tags were found Register a free business account Hardcover: pages Publisher: W. Choose the book you like when you register 4. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored 5.
Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from toplevel manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life.
Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order. Short-link Link Embed. Share from cover. Share from page:. More magazines by this user. Close Flag as Inappropriate. Skip to main content. I know that I was unable to do so. Almost no significant intellectual opposition remained.
The state in everyday life Princeton UP, 4. The independent prostitute was seen as a symbol of modernist and romantic relations between the sexes, pursuing individual gain or pleasure. At its height, the Civil Censorship Detachment had a staff of 6, However, the communists now had credibility for having defied the emperor; freed from jail they began espousing their cause. Refresh and try again. In contrast, throughout the interwar period, the independent prostitute was repressed and criminalised.
Yet even in the aftermath of the ANPO protests, the stifling of democracy and individual subjectivity still required a subtle combination of economics and culture through the promotion of consumerism in the popular media, ultimately achieved only after the media spectacle of violent student protest in the mid-to-late s.
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