The Currents of War (eBook)

A New History of American-Japanese Relations, 1899-1941

Sidney L. Pash (Autor)

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2014
372 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-4424-5 (ISBN)

Infos

From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.S. presidents sought to preserve China's territorial integrity in order to guarantee American businesses access to Chinese markets -- a policy famously known as the "e;open door."e; Before the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Americans saw Japan as the open door's champion; but by the end of 1905, Tokyo had replaced St. Petersburg as its greatest threat. For the next thirty-six years, successive U.S. administrations worked to safeguard China and contain Japanese expansion on the mainland. The Currents of War reexamines the relationship between the United States and Japan and the casus belli in the Pacific through a fresh analysis of America's central foreign policy strategy in Asia. In this ambitious and compelling work, Sidney Pash offers a cautionary tale of oft-repeated mistakes and miscalculations. He demonstrates how continuous economic competition in the Asia-Pacific region heightened tensions between Japan and the United States for decades, eventually leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.Pash's study is the first full reassessment of pre--World War II American-Japanese diplomatic relations in nearly three decades. It examines not only the ways in which U.S. policies led to war in the Pacific but also how this conflict gave rise to later confrontations, particularly in Korea and Vietnam. Wide-ranging and meticulously researched, this book offers a new perspective on a significant international relationship and its enduring consequences.

Autor

lt;P>Sidney Pash is associate professor of history at Fayetteville State University. A former Fulbright Fellow in Tokyo, he is coeditor of The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front.

Inhalt

The Foundations of ContainmentThe Rise and Fall of the Washington Treaty SystemInto the AbyssContainment at High TideSinners in the Hands of an Angry DepartmentThe Revolutionary SummerRollbackAll or Nothing

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Zusatzinfo: 11 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: China • containment • containment strategy • Foreign Relations • Global politics • Global Studies • International Studies • Japan • open door foreign policy • Open Door Policy • Peace and Conflict Studies • Pearl Harbor • United State Department of State • United States Department of State • United States Military • us-asia relations • US Foreign Relations • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-4424-8 / 0813144248
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4424-5 / 9780813144245