Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age

American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age

AvLaura E. Hein,Mark Selden

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-12-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9781563249679

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I: Introduction; 1: Commemoration and Silence; II: Commemoration and Censorship; 2: Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia; 3: Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki; 4: Making Things Visible; 5: Commemoration Controversies; 6: Mass Death in Miniature; 7: Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline; III: Contending Constituencies; 8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 9: The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches; 10: Memory Matters; 11: Were We the Enemy?; 12: Remembering Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory; IV: Afterword; 13: Learning about Patriotism, Decency, and the Bomb