The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: First Edition

Description: 540 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and age marks on back few pages present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 0691102228