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Narratives of Trauma
Scholars from Cultural Studies, History and Sociology address the national and international significance of discourses of 'German wartime suffering' in post-war and contemporary Germany. The focus of this interdisciplinary volume is both on the historical roots of the 'Germans as victims' narratives and the forms of their continuing existence in contemporary public memory and culture.
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Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War
\"This wide-ranging collection reassesses conventional understanding of Japan's Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable. Following an introduction that problematizes timeworn narratives about a \"unified Japan\" and its \"illegal war\" or \"race war,\" early chapters on the destruction of Japan's diplomatic records and government interest in an egalitarian health care policy before, during, and after the war oblige us to question selective histories and moral judgments about wartime Japan. The discussion then turns to artistic/cultural production and self-determination, specifically to Osaka rakugo performers who used comedy to contend with state oppression and to the role of women in creating care packages for soldiers abroad. Other chapters cast doubt on well-trod stereotypes (Japan's lack of pragmatism in its diplomatic relations with neutral nations and its irrational and fatalistic military leadership) and examine resistance to the war by a prominent Japanese Christian intellectual. The volume concludes with two nuanced responses to race in wartime Japan, one maintaining the importance of racial categories while recognizing the \"performance of Japaneseness,\" the other observing that communities often reflected official government policies through nationality rather than race. Contrasting findings like these underscore the need to ask new questions and fill old gaps in our understanding of a historical event thatremains as provocative and divisive as ever\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enemies among Us
Recent decades have drawn more attention to the United States'
treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few people
realize, however, the extent of the country's relocation,
internment, and repatriation of German and Italian Americans, who
were interned in greater numbers than Japanese Americans. The
United States also assisted other countries, especially in Latin
America, in expelling \"dangerous\" aliens, primarily Germans. In
Enemies among Us John E. Schmitz examines the causes,
conditions, and consequences of America's selective relocation and
internment of its own citizens and enemy aliens, as well as the
effects of internment on those who experienced it. Looking at
German, Italian, and Japanese Americans, Schmitz analyzes the
similarities in the U.S. government's procedures for those they
perceived to be domestic and hemispheric threats, revealing the
consistencies in the government's treatment of these groups,
regardless of race. Reframing wartime relocation and internment
through a broader chronological perspective and considering
policies in the wider Western Hemisphere, Enemies among Us
provides new conclusions as to why the United States relocated,
interned, and repatriated both aliens and citizens considered
enemies.
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The Japanese and the War
Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. InThe Japanese and the War, Michael Lucken details how World War II manifested in the literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform of the time. Concentrating on the years immediately before and after (1937 to 1952), Lucken explores the creation of an idea of Japanese identity that still resonates in everything from soap operas to the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Lucken defines three distinct layers of Japan's memory of World War II: the population's expectations at the beginning, the trauma caused by conflict and defeat, and the politics of memory that arose after Japan lost to the Allied powers. Emphasizing Japanese-language sources, Lucken writes a narrative of the making of Japanese cultural memory that moves away from Western historical modes and perspectives. His approach also paints a new portrait of the U.S. occupation, while still maintaining a cultural focus. Lucken sets out to capture the many ways people engage with war, but particularly the full range of Japan's experiences, which, he argues, the Japanese state has yet to fully confront, leading to a range of tensions at home and abroad.
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Hiroshima in history : the myths of revisionism
\"Analysis of Truman's decision to use nuclear arms against Japan through essays written by military and diplomatic historians\"--Provided by publisher.
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Le débarquement de Normandie
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le débarquement de Normandie en moins d'une heure!
Nous sommes à l'aube du 6 juin 1944. Il est 6 heures du matin lorsque les forces alliées débarquent sur les plages de Normandie. L'enjeu est de taille: il s'agit de porter un coup fatal au IIIe Reich d'Adolf Hitler et de libérer les territoires occupés. Le jour le plus long vient tout juste de se lever. Tout en nous plongeant au cœur de ce conflit majeur, ce livre n'omet aucun détail. Vous y trouverez: des explications sur le conflit qui se mondialise, le profil des acteurs qui ont activement participé à cet épisode tels que Eisenhower, Montgomery ou encore Rommel, mais aussi les stratégies mises en œuvre et les répercussions du débarquement. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur:
• Le contexte politique et social de l'époque
• Les acteurs majeurs du conflit
• Le déroulement du débarquement et sa chronologie (carte à l'appui)
• Les raisons de la victoire alliée
• Les répercussions du débarquement Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES|Grandes Batailles », Mélanie Mettra nous plonge au cœur de cette incroyable opération, l'une des plus importantes en termes de logistique, qui devait mettre à mal Adolf Hitler. Grâce à l'intervention de très nombreux hommes et à l'utilisation de ruses des plus originales, la mission est une réussite et redonne espoir au monde entier. » Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grandes Batailles
La série « Grandes Batailles » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante conflits qui ont bouleversé notre histoire. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent tout savoir sur une bataille, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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Clio's Warriors
Acclaimed historian and author Tim Cook (At the Sharp End) analyses where the practice of academic military history has come from and where it needs to go.
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