The clash : a history of U.S.-Japan relations / Walter LaFeber
- Bib ID:
- 3288815
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- LaFeber, Walter
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c1997
- xxii, 508 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0393039501
- 0393318370
- Summary:
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When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, Americans and Japanese immediately began to clash with each other. For the past century, this clash has focused especially on which nation would take the lead in developing China's economic potential. The relationship between the United States and Japan and the competition over China remain immensely important, highly explosive, and little understood on either side of the Pacific.
Walter LaFeber, one of America's leading historians, has written the first book to tell the entire story. Using a full array of American and Japanese sources, LaFeber provides the history to understand these long-rooted differences, bringing us to the present-day tensions in U.S.-Japanese trade talks, the vicissitudes of rearming Japan, Japan's continuing importance in financing America's huge deficit, and the looming economic shadow of China - not only the world's most populous century but certain to be the next economic superpower.
- Full contents:
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- I. Irresistible Force, Immovable Object
- II. Joining the Club (1868-1900)
- III. The Turn (1900-1912)
- IV. Revolution, War, and Race (1912-1920)
- V. Creating the New Era: From Washington to Mukden (1921-1931)
- VI. The Slipknot: Part 1 From Mukden ...
- VII. The Slipknot: Part 2 ... to Pearl Harbor
- VIII. World War II: The Clash Over Two Visions
- IX. To Create a New Japan: Reforming, Reversing, Warring (1945-1951)
- X. The 1950s: The Pivotal Decade
- XI. A "Miracle" Appears; China Reappears (1960-1973)
- XII. The End of an Era (Since 1973)
- Conclusion. The Clash: The Present in Retrospect.
- I. Irresistible Force, Immovable Object
- II. Joining the Club (1868-1900)
- III. The Turn (1900-1912)
- IV. Revolution, War, and Race (1912-1920)
- V. Creating the New Era: From Washington to Mukden (1921-1931)
- VI. The Slipknot: Part 1 From Mukden ...
- VII. The Slipknot: Part 2 ... to Pearl Harbor
- VIII. World War II: The Clash Over Two Visions
- IX. To Create a New Japan: Reforming, Reversing, Warring (1945-1951)
- X. The 1950s: The Pivotal Decade
- XI. A "Miracle" Appears; China Reappears (1960-1973)
- XII. The End of an Era (Since 1973)
- Conclusion. The Clash: The Present in Retrospect.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-480) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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