Competing Voices from the Pacific War

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Competing Voices from the Pacific War Fighting Words

Sean Brawley, Chris Dixon, and Beatrice Trefalt

ISBN: 1-84645-010-1

ISBN-13: 978-1-84645-010-5

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325 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 7/23/2009

List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 x 9

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Series Title: Fighting Words

Description: Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Materials covering political and strategic issues, the experiences of combatants and prisoners of war, the experiences of civilians caught up in the various war zones, and the impact of the war on the various home fronts, are also included.

By including a range of primary sources representing the experiences and views of participants and commentators of all sides and setting them in their historical contexts, this unique anthology promotes an understanding of the Pacific War, the events that led up to it, and its legacies. Alongside sources that reflect traditional military history, material that considers the war from the perspective of the “new military history” is also included.
Title Features:

Primary source documents enable student research and learning
Expert commentary puts the documents and events they cover in perspective
Excerpts from the media as well as letters, diaries, and speeches put a personal face on the war
Presents eyewitness accounts to bring aspects of the war vividly alive

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Growing Tensions: Japan, China, and the United States
Chapter 3: Pearl Harbor
Chapter 4: Japanese Conquests, Allied Defeats, 1941-1942
Chapter 5: Turning Points at Sea, 1942: Coral Sea and Midway
Chapter 6: Turning the Tide on Land, 1942: Guadalcanal and New Guinea
Chapter 7: Wartime Life in Occupied Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 8: Home Fronts: Japan, the United States, and Australia
Chapter 9: The Prisoner-of-War Experience
Chapter 10: Allied Offensive, 1943-45
Chapter 11: Hiroshima and the Defeat of Japan
Chapter 12: Surrender
Chapter 13: Legacies: The Significance of the Pacific War

About the Author: Sean Brawley is Associate Professor of History, and Faculty Learning and Teaching Fellow, at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Chris Dixon is Associate Professor of History and coordinator of the Cultural History Project at the University of Queensland, Australia. His major publications include Greenwood's African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century.

Beatrice Trefalt is a senior lecturer in the Japanese Studies program, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.

LCC Class: 940.54-dc22

PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf	Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf
Greenwood History Spring 2008.pdf	Greenwood School and Public Library Reference 2009.pdf
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