Faculty of Arts
Week 4 w/c 8 August
The Pacific War 1942-45
Lecture:
Tuesday 11 August: USA and Japan
Lecturer:
Greg Bankoff
Seminar topic:
Thursday 11 August & Wednesday 17 August:
The USA was ‘good’ for Japan?
Required Readings:
Bernstein, Barton (1996) ‘Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender: Missed Opportunities, Little-Known Near Disasters, and Modern Memory’. In Hogan, Michael J. (ed) Hiroshima in History and Memory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.38-79. ISBN 0521562066
Sodei, Rinjiro (1995) Hiroshima/Nasgasaki As History and Politics. Journal of American History, 82, 3, pp.1085-1093.
Iokibe, Makoto (1990) Japan Meets the United States for the Second Time. Daedalus, 119, 3, pp.91-106
Recommended Readings:
Beasley, W.G. (1991) The Greater
Chang, Iris, The rape of
Dower, John (1986) War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Pantheon,
Feis, Herbert (1953). The Road to
Fujitani, Takahashi et al, Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), Duke University Press,
Hu, Pu Yu, A brief History of Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945), Chung Wu Publishing company,
Iriye, Akira, The origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, Longman,
Iriye, Akira, Pearl Harbor and the coming of the Pacific War: A brief history with documents and essays, St Martin's Press,
Kennett, Lee, For the duration ... : The
Kimmel. Edward, Admiral Kimmel's story, H. Regnery Co. Chicago, 1955
Laurie, Barber, The last war of empires:
Lewis, Jonathan, Hell in the Pacific: from Pearl Harbor to
Perry, John Curtis, Beneath the eagle's wings: Americans in occupied
Pratt, John Thomas, Before Pearl Harbor: A Study of the historical background to the war in the Pacific, Caxton,
Rosenberg, Emily, A date which will live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, Duke University Press,
Schaller, Michael, The American Occupation of
Schonberger, Howard, Aftermath of War: Americans and the remaking of
Storry,
Tansill, Charles (1953) Back Door to War. In G. Waller (ed) Pearl Harbor:
Ward Robert and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, Democratizing
Willmott, H, Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942, Naval Institute Press,
Yamamoto, Masahiro, Nanking: anatomy of an atrocity, Praeger,
Links:
Japan and China
The Nanking Massacre, 1937, New York Times, December 17, 1937 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nanking.html
Mao Tse-tung: The Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party in the Period of Resistance to Japan, May 3, 1937
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Other/Mao/370503.htm
Mao Tse-tung : Win the Masses in their Millions for the Ant-Japanese National United Front. May 7, 1937
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Other/Mao/370507.htm
Japan and the United States
Theodore Roosevelt : The Threat of Japan Source: Papers of Theodore Roosevelt, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, pp. 120-126.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/trjapan.htm
Pearl Harbor Attack documents
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941PEARL.html
Congressional Declaration of War on Japan
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/japwar.html
The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/japsurr.html
Pacific War
A brief, US precise of World War II
http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/WWII.html
War Times Journal precise of World War II
http://wtj.com/articles/pacific_war/
The congressional declaration of war on Japan.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/japwar.html
A good summary of the causes, the progress and the consequences of WWII.
World War II (http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/WWII.html)
Another summary of the war, with focus on the Pacific; includes images and maps.
WWII summary (http://www.wtj.com/articles/pacific_war)
The A Bomb
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
http://www.whistlestop.org/study_collections/bomb/large/bomb.htm
Hiroshima: Was it Necessary?Record of A-Bomb disaster
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/record.html
‘The final months of the war with Japan: signals intelligence, U.S. invasion planning, and the A-bomb decision’.
http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/4253605299/csi9810001.html