Week 5 w/c 16 August

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The Cold War Warrior 

Lecture:

Thursday 18 August: Containment and the Cold War

Lecturer:

Greg Bankoff

Seminar topic:

Thursday 18 August & Wednesday 24 August:

Someone needed to take on the role of world policeman after 1945?

Required Readings:

Hunt, Michael (1987) Ideology in Twentieth Century Foreign Policy’. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. Yale University Press, new Haven and London, pp.125-170. ISBN 0300037171

Iriye, Akira (1974) ‘The Decline of the Yalta System’ The Cold War in Asia An Historical Introduction. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp.130-163. ISBN 0131396595

Recommended Readings:

Byrnes, Mark, The Truman Years: 1945 - 1953, Longman, London, 2000

Caute, David, The great fear: the anti-communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower, Secker and Warburg, London, 1978

Cullather, Nick (1994) Illusions of Influence: the Political Economy of the United-States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Clark, Robert Edward David, The atomic bomb: What of the future?, Paternoster Press, London, 1945

Franz, Richter, The atom bomb: what it really means for human society, Social Science Association, 1945

Glasstone, Samuel, The effects of nuclear weapons, U.S Atomic Energy Comission, Washington, 1962

Harper, Stephen, Miracle of deliverance: the case for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1985

Hein, Laura and Selden, Mark, Living with the bomb: American and Japanese cultural conflicts in the Nuclear Age, Armonk, New York, 1997

Hogan, Michael, Hiroshima in history and memory, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1996

Holdstock, Douglas and Barnaby, Frank, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Retrospect and Prospect, Frank Cass Publishing, Portland, 1995

Hunt, Michael (1987) Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. Yale University Press, New haven and London.

Kyoko and Mark Selden, The Atomic bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Armonk, New York, 1989

Lifton, Robert Jay, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Random House, New York, 1968

Orr, James Joseph, The victim as hero: ideologies of peace and national identity in postwar Japan, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2001

Takaki, Ronald, Hiroshima: why America dropped the atomic bomb, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1995

Takaki, Ronald (1998) A History of Asian Americans; Strangers from a Different Shore. Little Brown and Company, Boston, New York and London

Thomas, Gordon and Morgan-Witts, Max, Ruin from the air: The atomic mission to Hiroshima, Hamilton, London, 1977

Wainstock, Dennis, The decision to drop the atomic bomb, Praeger, Westport, 1996

Walker, J. Samuel, Prompt and utter destruction: Truman and the use of the atomic bombs against Japan, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2004

Wheeler, Keith, The fall of Japan, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, 1983

Links

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm
Timeline of the Pacific War

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/
Photos from the Pacific War

http://www.nimitz-museum.org/
National Museum of the Pacific War

http://www.compass.dircon.co.uk/1aircraft.htm
Aircraft of the Pacific War

http://www.angelfire.com/fm/compass/allpacships.htm
Ships of the Pacific War

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/pacwar/intro.htm
Memories of the Pacific War

http://worldwariihistory.info/WWII/Pacific.html
A brief history about the Pacific War

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/pa/pacific_war.htm
Facts and information about the Pacific War