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The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
S. C. M. Paine
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Description for The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
Paperback. An accessible, analytical survey of the rise and fall of Imperial Japan in the context of its grand strategy to transform itself into a great power. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 b/w illus. 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) but became overextended in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-45), which escalated, with profound consequences, into World War II. A combination of incomplete institution building, an increasingly lethal international environment, a skewed balance between civil and military ... Read more
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) but became overextended in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-45), which escalated, with profound consequences, into World War II. A combination of incomplete institution building, an increasingly lethal international environment, a skewed balance between civil and military ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107676169
SKU
V9781107676169
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About S. C. M. Paine
S. C. M. Paine, William S. Sims Professor at the United States Naval War College, has spent eight of the last thirty years engaged in research and language study in Japan, Taiwan, China, Russia, and Australia. Her funding has included two Fulbright Fellowships along with fellowships from Japan, Taiwan, and Australia. She is the author of The Wars for Asia ... Read more
Reviews for The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
'In clear and vibrant prose, Paine leads the reader through a tumultuous century and a half of Japanese history, focusing on the way Japan's leaders positioned their country in the world, from the Meiji period, through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and into the period of stunning growth after WWII. A vital contribution not just to the history ... Read more