The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945
By (Author) Ramon H. Myers
Edited by Mark R. Peattie
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th June 1987
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
National liberation and independence
325.352009
Paperback
560
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
822g
These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Kara
"The essays should be read by all students of modern international history; henceforth, no historian will be able to plead linguistic handicaps as an excuse for failing to incorporate the Japanese experience into a serious analysis of modem colonialism and imperialism."--Akira Iriye, International History Review