Books written by John W. Dower
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Nonfiction: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.
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Peace with China?: U.S. Decisions for Asia
Ending the Permanent Confrontation with China FRANZ SCHURMAN : I offer my remarks not as a critic of American foreign policy , but as an opponent of that policy . Since the end of World War II and the beginning of the cold war , there ...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Chronicles the events that took place in Japan at the end of World War II and explores the effects they have had on the development and shaping of the Japanese society, from immediately after the war to the present day.
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The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
The winner of numerous national prizes for his historical writings, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, Dower draws heavily on hard data and internal U.S. planning and pronouncements in this concise analysis of war and ...
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces ...
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The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
The Violent American Century addresses the US-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945—beginning with brutal localized hostilities, proxy wars, and the nuclear terror of the Cold War, and ending with the ...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, ...
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Japan and World War II in Asia have drawn my attention as a historian for many years, and analogies between the new conflict and the old one were provocative in unanticipated ways—increasingly so, as it turned out, as 9-11 spilled into ...
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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World
Both provocative and probing, Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering delves into a range of subjects, including the complex role of racism on both sides of the Pacific War, the sophistication of Japanese wartime propaganda, the ways in ...
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Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays
Drawing on decades of experience and research, Professor Dower highlights for the first time the resemblances between wartime, postwar and contemporary Japan.
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
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War Without Mercy
Describes the "Race" war fought in the Pacific during W.W. II and examines the propaganda which contributed to a war without mercy.
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A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope
As one of the first American photographers to set foot on Japanese soil at the end of World War II, even before Japan had officially surrendered, John Swope experienced and...
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Japanese History & Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies
THE WOMEN OF SUYE MURA . 1982 : University of Chicago Press . Based on fieldwork in the 1930s . Robert J. Smith . " Japanese Village Women : Suye - mura , 1935-1936 , " Journal of Japanese Studies 7.2 ( 1981 ) , 259-284 . Sharon Nolte .
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Describes the "Race" war fought in the Pacific during W.W. II and examines the propaganda which contributed to a war without mercy.
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Japan in War and Peace: Essays on History, Culture and Race
" ANGUS CALDER, 'Scotland on Sunday' "A showcase of essay-writing by one of the premier scholars of modern Japanese history...lucidly written, extremely enlightening and carefully researched...this book offers a shining example of the ...
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Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies
Lists works about the history, culture, civilization, people, rulers, and government of Japan throughout the ages