American Survivors - Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The little-known history of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings reveals captivating trans-Pacific memories of war, illness, gender, and community.

Sommario

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Cities of Immigrants; 2. Remembering the Nuclear Holocaust; 3. Reconnecting Families; 4. War and Work Across the Pacific; 5. Finding Survivorhood; 6. Endlessness of Radiation Illness; Epilogue; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index.

Info autore

Naoko Wake is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. A historian of gender, sexuality, and illness in the Pacific region, she has authored Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism and co-authored with Shinpei Takeda Hiroshima/Nagasaki Beyond the Ocean. She was born and raised in Japan.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Naoko (Michigan State University) Wake, Wake Naoko
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.01.2024
• EAN: 9781108799904
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79990-4
• Pagine: 408
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); USA, Japan, Oral History, HISTORY / United States / General, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Nuclear weapons, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)