Faculty of Arts


Week 4

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 East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945. Clarendon, Oxford, pp 233-250.

Chang, Iris, The rape of Nanking: The forgotten Holocaust of World War II, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1998

Dower, John (1986) War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Pantheon, New York.

Feis, Herbert (1953). The Road to Pearl Harbor. In G. Waller (ed) Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the Coming of the War. DC Heath and Co., Boston, pp 47-73.

Fujitani, Takahashi et al, Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s), Duke University Press, Durham, 2001

Greenfield, Kent Roberts, American strategy in World War II: A reconsideration, John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1963

Hu, Pu Yu, A brief History of Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945), Chung Wu Publishing company, Taipei, 1974

Iriye, Akira, The origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, Longman, London, 1987

Iriye, Akira, Pearl Harbor and the coming of the Pacific War: A brief history with documents and essays, St Martin's Press, Boston, 1999

Kennett, Lee, For the duration ... : The United States goes to War, Pearl Harbor - 1942, Scribner, New York, 1985

Kimmel. Edward, Admiral Kimmel's story, H. Regnery Co. Chicago, 1955

Laurie, Barber, The last war of empires: Japan and the Pacific War, Bateman, Auckland, 1999

Lewis, Jonathan, Hell in the Pacific: from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and beyond, Channel 4, London, 2001

Perry, John Curtis, Beneath the eagle's wings: Americans in occupied Japan, Dodd, New York, 1980

Pratt, John Thomas, Before Pearl Harbor: A Study of the historical background to the war in the Pacific, Caxton, London, 1944

Rosenberg, Emily, A date which will live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, Duke University Press, Durham, 2003

Schaller, Michael, The American Occupation of Japan: The origins of the Cold War in Asia, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985

Schonberger, Howard, Aftermath of War: Americans and the remaking of Japan, 1945 - 52, Kent State University Press, Kent, 1989

Storry, Richard, Japan and the decline of the West in Asia, 1894 - 1943, Macmillan, London, 1979

Tansill, Charles (1953) Back Door to War. In G. Waller (ed) Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the Coming of the War. DC Heath and Co Boston. pp 16-46.

Ward Robert and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, Democratizing Japan: The allied occupation, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1987

Walker, J. Samuel (1996) History, Collective Memory and the Decision to Use the Bomb. In Hogan, Michael J. (ed). Hiroshima in History and Memory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Willmott, H, Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1982

Yamamoto, Masahiro, Nanking: anatomy of an atrocity, Praeger, Westport, 2000


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

 


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