Japanese Empire - Grand Strategy From the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

An accessible, analytical survey of the rise and fall of Imperial Japan in the context of its grand strategy to transform itself into a great power.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. The Meiji generation; 2. The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5); 3. The Russo-Japanese War (1904-5); 4. The transition from a maritime to a continental security paradigm; 5. The Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-41); 6. The General Asian War (1941-5); 7. Japan betwixt maritime and continental world orders; Selected bibliography; Index.

About the author

S. C. M. Paine, William S. Sims Professor at the United States Naval War College, has spent eight of the last thirty years engaged in research and language study in Japan, Taiwan, China, Russia, and Australia. Her funding has included two Fulbright Fellowships along with fellowships from Japan, Taiwan, and Australia. She is the author of The Wars for Asia (Cambridge, 2012), which received the Richard W. Leopold Prize and the PROSE Award for European and World History, and was longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, and Imperial Rivals (1996), which received the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize.

Summary

Charting the rise and fall of Japan, the model developing country of the nineteenth century, the overthrow of the traditional Asian balance of power, and enduring animosities, this is an essential guide for those interested in Asian and world history, comparative politics, international relations, security studies and Asian politics today.

Product details

• Authors: S. C. M. Paine, S.C.M. Paine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107011953
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01195-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History