Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan, which…

Power and Culture challenges existing assumptions about the war in the Pacific. By focusing on the interplay between culture and international relations, one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of…

Since their first publication, the four volumes of The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the…

A major phenomenon in the post-World War II world is the rise of Japan as a leading international economic and industrial power. This advance began with American aid in rebuilding…

Mori Arinori’s Life and Resources in America sheds much light on the shape of an American society, government, and economy recovering from the Civil War. This book-originally published in English…

From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led by archaeologist Hans-Joachim Gehrke, a distinguished group of scholars lays out latest…

Lester Knox Little (1892-1981) kept a detailed journal of his time in China and Taiwan. Covering the years 1943 to 1954 it provides rich new materials for understanding conditions in…