Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq Hardcover - 2010
by John W. Dower
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.
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From the Preface of Cultures of War:
"I began researching and writing this study shortly after September 11, 2001, when comparisons between Al Qaeda's surprise attack and Japan's at Pearl Harbor six decades earlier flooded the media in the United States. 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 the U.S.-led war of choice in Iraq, and that war and ensuing occupation in turn led to chaos and great suffering in a supposedly liberated land."
Praise for John W. Dower's War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
"One of the handful of truly important books on the Pacific War . . . a cautionary tale for all peoples, now and in the future."--Foreign Affairs
"May well be the most important study of the Pacific War ever published."--New Republic
Praise for Dower's Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
"Extraordinarily illuminating . . . the most significant work to date on the postwar era in Japan."--Wall Street Journal
"Magisterial and beautifully written. . . . [A] richly nuanced book. . . . A pleasure to read."--New York Times Book Review
"One senses that Dower set out to write the most important Japan book in a generation (and perhaps more). The uplifting news is that he has succeeded. . . . A masterpiece."--The Nation
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- Title Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq
- Author John W. Dower
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 640
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 2010-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780393061505 / 0393061507
- Weight 2.23 lbs (1.01 kg)
- Dimensions 9.56 x 6.6 x 1.62 in (24.28 x 16.76 x 4.11 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, Iraq War, 2003-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010020395
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.009
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/2010, Page 16
- Choice, 03/01/2011, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2010, Page 603
- Library Journal, 09/01/2010, Page 119
- New Yorker (The), 10/25/2010, Page 83
- Publishers Weekly, 10/11/2010, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2011, Page 51
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