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The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume I
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The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume I Hardcover - 2005

by John Steinberg (Editor); Bruce Menning (Editor); David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye (Editor)

First line

The origins of Japan's surprise attack on the Russian Pacific Squadron at Port Arthur in February 1904 can be traced back more than a century before the hostilities that would decide mastery in East Asia erupted.

Details

  • Title The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume I
  • Author John Steinberg (Editor); Bruce Menning (Editor); David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 739
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date May 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004142848 / 9004142843
  • Weight 3.15 lbs (1.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.48 x 1.91 in (24.28 x 16.46 x 4.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004062918
  • Dewey Decimal Code 952.031

About the author

John W. Steinberg is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. His book on the education, training, and performance of the Imperial Russian General Staff, 1898-1914 is forthcoming.

Bruce W. Menning is a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. A specialist in modern Russian military history, he is the author of Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914.

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is Associate Professor of Russian and East Asian History at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. He, together with Bruce Menning, edited Reforming the Tsar's Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution.

David Wolff is Senior Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, specializing in Northeast Asian political and diplomatic history. He has held appointments at Princeton and Berkeley. He is the author of To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.

Yokote Shinji is Professor of Russian History and Politics at Keio University. He is most recently author of Higashi Ajia no Roshia (Russia in East Asia).

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