A Date Which Will Live - Pearl Harbor in American Memory

"Emily S. Rosenberg has given us a fine, concise study of war, memory, and mythmaking in America that will prove equally appealing to teachers, students, and general readers."--John W. Dower, author of "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II"

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. Signifying Pearl Harbor: The First Fifty Years 9

1. Infamy: Reinvigorating American Unity and Power 11

2. Backdoor Deceit: Contesting the New Deal 34

3. Representations of Race and Japanese-American Relations 53

4. Commemoration of Sacrifice 71

II. Reviving Pearl Harbor after 1991 99

5. Bilateral Relations: Pearl Harbor's Half-Century Anniversary and the Apology Controversies 101

6. The Memory Boom and the "Greatest Generation" 113

7. The Kimmel Crusade, the HIstory Wars, and the Republican Revival 126

8. Japanese Americans: Identity and Memory Culture 140

9. Spectacular History 155

10. Day of Infamy: September 11, 2001 174

Notes 191

Bibliography 213

Index 229

About the author

Emily S. Rosenberg ist Professorin für Geschichte an der University of California in Irvine. Zu ihren Spezialgebieten gehören die transnationale Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten, insbesondere die wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Beziehungen, sowie Fragen der Erinnerungskultur.

Summary

How Pearl Harbor has been written about, thought of, and manipulated in American culture.

Product details

• Authors: Emily S Rosenberg, Emily S. Rosenberg
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780822332060
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3206-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Weight: 414 g
• Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int; American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Moderne Kriegsführung, Hawaii (Inseln)