The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (eBook)

When Total Empire Met Total War

Jeremy A. Yellen (Autor)

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2019
306 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501735561 (ISBN)

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"The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II."

â• Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review

In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions—one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines.

Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia's future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationalist elites in the colonial capitals of Rangoon and Manila. Exploring Japanese visions for international order in the face of an ever-changing geopolitical situation, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere explores wartime Japan's desire to shape and control its imperial future while its colonies attempted to do the same. At Japan's zenith as an imperial power, the Sphere represented a plan for regional domination; by the end of the war, it had been recast as the epitome of cooperative internationalism. In the end, the Sphere could not survive wartime defeat, and Yellen's lucidly written account reveals much about the desires of Japan as an imperial and colonial power, as well as the ways in which the subdued colonies in Burma and the Philippines jockeyed for agency and a say in the future of the region.

Autor

Jeremy A. Yellen is Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: anticolonial asia • anticolonial japan • Asian History • Asian Politics • Asian Studies • co-prosperity sphere • East Asian History • east asian history and culture • East Asian Studies • effects of the great war • foreign minister matsuoka yosuke • greater asian history • greater east asia • History • history of japan empire • imperial apanese army • International Studies • japan 1942 • Japanese Empire • Japanese history • japanese imperial expansion • Japanese Imperialism • japanese military history • Japanese politics • japanese relations • japanese relations with philippines • Japanese Studies • japan in world war II • japan's wartime empire • matsuoka yosuke • military history • modern japanese politics • modern japanese studies • Modern Jewish history • new order in greater east asia • Pacific history • prime minister tojo hideki • second Sino-Japanese War • south asia initiative • the china incident • tojo hideki • World War II History • World War II, WWII, colonialism, international order, Southeast Asia, Asian, Japan, Burma, Philippines, military history, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese, Asia, Empire, fascism, imperialism
• ISBN-13: 9781501735561 / 9781501735561