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World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930

Dickinson, Frederick R.

2013

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 1912-1945 / Foreign relations / Hamaguchi, Osachi, 1870-1931 / Japan / Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 / Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1912-1945 / Japan -- Politics and government -- 1912-1945 / World War, 1914-1918 / World War, 1914-1918 -- Japan -- Influence
• ISBN: 1107544971, 9781107037700, 1107037700, 9781107544970