Cultures of War
Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Published on 28. May 2012
640 pages
978-0-393-08047-6 (ISBN)
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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
?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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John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online ?Visualizing Cultures? project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
