| Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History Contributor(s): Mark, Ethan (Author), Gerteis, Christopher (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350022209 ISBN-13: 9781350022201 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Series: Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.50 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of domestic, regional, and global crisis. Japan's occupation of Java is here revealed in a radically new and nuanced light, as an ambiguous encounter revolutionary in the degree of mutual interests that drew the two sides together, fascinating and tragic in its evolution, and profound in the legacies left behind. Mark structures his study around a diverse group of Japanese and Indonesians captivated by the wartime vision of a 'Greater Asia.' The book is not only the first transnational study of Japan's wartime occupation of Java, but the first to focus on the Second World War experience in transnational terms 'on the ground' anywhere in Asia. Breaking new ground interpretatively, thematically and narratively, Mark's monumental study is of vital significance for students and scholars of modern Asian and global history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mark, Ethan: - Ethan Mark is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese and Asian History in the Japanese and Asian Studies programs at Leiden University, The Netherlands.Gerteis, Christopher: - Christopher Gerteis is Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. |
