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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809871903321

Autore

Dickinson Frederick R. <1961->

Titolo

World War I and the triumph of a new Japan, 1919-1930 / / Frederick R. Dickinson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-46139-1

1-139-89269-X

1-107-45932-X

1-107-54497-1

1-107-46511-7

1-107-46862-0

1-139-79479-5

1-107-47218-0

1-107-47319-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; ; 39

Disciplina

952.03/2

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Japan - Influence

Japan Politics and government 1912-1945

Japan Foreign relations 1912-1945

Japan Economic conditions 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

World war I as anchor -- Structural foundations of a new Japan -- Internationalism -- Democracy -- Disarmament -- World power -- Culture of peace -- Hamaguchi Osachi and the triumph of the new Japan.

Sommario/riassunto

Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. Taking World War I as his anchor, Dickinson examines the structural foundations of a



new Japan, discussing the country's wholehearted participation in new post-war projects of democracy, internationalism, disarmament and peace. Dickinson proposes that Japan's renewed drive for military expansion in the 1930s marked less a failure of Japan's interwar culture than the start of a tumultuous domestic debate over the most desirable shape of Japan's twentieth-century world. This stimulating study will engage students and researchers alike, offering a unique, global perspective of interwar Japan.