The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945

Book Overview

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, Karafuto. the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands), the institutions and policies by which it was governed, and the economic dynamics that impelled it. Seeking neither to justify the empire nor to condemn it, the contributors place it in the framework of Japanese history and in the context of colonialism as a global phenomenon. Contributors are Ching-chih Chen. Edward I-te Chen, Bruce Cumings, Peter Duus, Lewis H. Gann, Samuel Pao-San Ho, Marius B. Jansen, Mizoguchi Toshiyuki, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie, Michael E. Robinson, E. Patricia Tsurumi. Yamada Saburo, Yamamoto Yuzoo.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691053987
• ISBN13: 9780691053981
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A More Than Adaquate Introduction

Unlike so many books on the Japanese Colonial Empire which tend to be quite narrow on their focus, this compulation covers the entire empire, formal and informal. Also to its credit, the essays inside are a good mixture of specifically focused and more broadly outlined writings. Overall it is a good buy for any level, from those just beginning to learn colonial history to those much more well versed.