| Edition |
7th printing, corr. by the author. |
| Description |
xii, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-384) and index. |
| Note |
"One of the most disturbing examples of racism in the Pacific War was the execution of Allied POWs by the Japanese while American planes were dropping bombs on Tokyo--this on the final day of the war, a year after Japan's defeat was assured. Dower, professor of Japanese history at UC San Diego, traces in rich detail the development of racism on both sides of the Pacific, including an analysis of wartime propaganda comparing Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" films with their Japanese counterparts. The book leaves no room for doubt about the intensity of racial loathing among all, and shows that its effects were virtually identical. This startling work of scholarship has a larger theme, however, than racially inspired atrocities in the Pacific theater."--Reed Business. |
| Contents |
Enemies -- Patterns of a race war -- "Know your enemy" -- War hates and war crimes -- The war in western eyes -- Apes and others -- Lesser men and supermen -- Primitives, children, madmen -- Yellow, red, and black men -- The war in Japanese eyes -- The pure self -- The demonic other -- "Global policy with the Yamato race as nucleus" -- Epilogue -- From war to peace. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Public opinion.
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Racism.
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| ISBN |
0394751728 (pbk.) |
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9780394751726 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 314537147 |
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