1999, ISBN: 1852851929

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[EAN: 9781852851927], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Continnuum-3PL, Hambledon & London], Jacket, Dust jacket complete, unclipped, fading to spine colour. Original cloth boards with … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781852851927], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Continnuum-3PL, Hambledon & London], Jacket, Dust jacket complete, unclipped, fading to spine colour. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 216 pages clean and tight. Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.4 x 594.2 cm. During World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese certainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of the Japanese is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognize that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis trial, at a particular period of their history, and that their attitudes were influenced by a combination of their perception of their own racial identity mixed with a powerful historical tradition. This collection of essays, by both western and Japanese scholars, aims to see the question from a historical viewpoint, and from both a western and Japanese perspective, looking at it in the light of both longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The essays also examine particular instances. Conditions in the almost self-run camp at Changi contrasted remarkably with those on the Burma Railway, where disease and a failure to provide supplies caused terrible suffering. Size: 8vo, Books<

1999, ISBN: 9781852851927

Hambledon Continuum, Hardcover, Auflage: First Edition, 216 Seiten, Publiziert: 1999-07-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: black & white illustrations, 0.3 kg, Verkaufsran… Mehr…

Hambledon Continuum, Hardcover, Auflage: First Edition, 216 Seiten, Publiziert: 1999-07-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: black & white illustrations, 0.3 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1126720, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, Europe, History, Subjects, Origins, World War II 1939-1945, Military History, Prisoners of War, World History, Japan, Asia, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Hambledon Continuum, 1999<