Cultures of War

양장본 Hardcover

Dower, John W./ / 저자(글)

W. W. Norton & Company · 2010년 09월 07일

책 소개

From the Preface of Cultures of War : '? began researching and writing this study shortly after September 11, 2001, when comparisons between Al Qaeda's surprise attack and Japan's at Pearl Harbor six decades earlier flooded the media in the United States. Japan and World War II in Asia have drawn my attention as a historian for many years, and analogies between the new conflict and the old one were provocative in unanticipated ways'?ncreasingly so, as it turned out, as 9-11 spilled into the U.S.-led war of choice in Iraq, and that war and ensuing occupation in turn led to chaos and great suffering in a supposedly liberated land.'?Praise for John W. Dower's War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award '?ne of the handful of truly important books on the Pacific War . . . a cautionary tale for all peoples, now and in the future.'??oreign Affairs '?ay well be the most important study of the Pacific War ever published.'??New Republic Praise for Dower's Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award '?xtraordinarily illuminating . . . the most significant work to date on the postwar era in Japan.'??Wall Street Journal '?agisterial and beautifully written. . . . [A] richly nuanced book. . . . A pleasure to read.'??ew York Times Book Review '?ne senses that Dower set out to write the most important Japan book in a generation (and perhaps more). The uplifting news is that he has succeeded. . . . A masterpiece.'??The Nation
'Cultures of War' offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behaviour and pathologies that transcend 'cultures' in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.
John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat , winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War . He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online Visualizing Cultures project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
A groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times. Over recent decades, Pulitzer-winning historian John W. Dower has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. Here he examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice and "strategic imbecilities," faith-based secular thinking as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic--and allure--of mass destruction. Dower also sets the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly original ways. He offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.--From publisher description.
Immediately after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the U.S. media proclaimed September 11 a "day of infamy" comparable to Pearl Harbor. Cultures of War takes this analogy as a point of departure for a vivid comparative analysis of the war with Japan, the war on terror, and the war with Iraq. This pathbreaking inquiry addresses institutional failures of intelligence and imagination, the "strategic imbecility" of Japan's and America's wars of choice in 1941 and 2003, terror bombing and the targeting of civilians since World War II, "Ground Zero 1945" and "Ground Zero 2001," and the driving forces behind Pan-Asian and Pan-Islam movements. A final section compares occupied Japan and occupied Iraq in thoroughly original ways. Including more than one hundred stunning illustrations, Cultures of War promises to be one of the most important books of this decade, a conceptual breakthrough in the ways we think about "culture" in general and "war" in particular.
Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America's preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and analyzed the brutality that attended World War II in the Pacific, as seen from both the Japanese and the American sides. Embracing Defeat (1999), winner of numerous honors including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, dealt with Japan's struggle to start over in a shattered land in the immediate aftermath of the Pacific War, when the defeated country was occupied by the U.S.-led Allied powers. Turning to an even larger canvas, Dower now examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events-Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice and "strategic imbecilities," faith-based secular thinking as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic-and allure-of mass destruction. Dower's new work also sets the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly original ways. One of the most important books of this decade, Cultures of War offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.
Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of Americar's preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and analyzed the brutality that attended World War II in the Pacific, as seen from both the Japanese and the American sides. Embracing Defeat (1999), winner of numerous honors including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, dealt with Japan's struggle to start over in a shattered land in the immediate aftermath of the Pacific War, when the defeated country was occupied by the U.S.-led Allied powers. Turning to an even larger canvas, Dower now examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events-Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice and "strategic imbecilities", faith-based secular thinking as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic-and allure-of mass destruction. Dower's new work also sets the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly original ways. One of the most important books of this decade, Cultures of War offers comparative insights into individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense, and that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.
Among Dower "s gifts is a striking ability to embed provocative conclusions within such rich analysis that they cannot be dismissed as outrageous.
Among Dower's gifts is a striking ability to embed provocative conclusions within such rich analysis that they cannot be dismissed as outrageous.
Dower exposes the dubious nature of any nation "s or movement "s claim to moral purity or clear conscience in an era when 'modern war remains largely wholesale killing.'
Dower exposes the dubious nature of any nation's or movement's claim to moral purity or clear conscience in an era when 'modern war remains largely wholesale killing.'
Starred Review. An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study.
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Nonfiction: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.

작가정보

저자(글) Dower, John W./ /

목차

• List of Illustrations	p. xiii
  Preface: The Evolution of an Inquiry	p. xix
  Acknowledgments	p. xxxv
  ?earl Harbor?As Code Wars of Choice and Failures of Intelligence
  Infamy and the Cracked Mirror of History	p. 3
  ?earl Harbor?As Code	p. 4
  The Boomerang of ?earl Harbor?/td>	p. 14
  The Failure of Intelligence	p. 22
  Prelude to Pearl Harbor	p. 22
  Prelude to 9-II	p. 27
  Postmortems: Pearl Harbor	p. 34
  Postmortems: 9-II	p. 38
  The Failure of Imagination	p. 42
  ?ittle Yellow Sons-of-Bitches?/td>	p. 42
  Rationality, Desperation, and Risk	p. 50
  Aiding and Abetting the Enemy	p. 53
  ?his Little Terrorist in Afghanistan?/td>	p. 57
  Innocence, Evil, and Amnesia	p. 62
  Catastrophe and the Transfer of Innocence	p. 62
  Evil and the Transfer of Evil	p. 68
  Amnesia and Frankenstein's Monster	p. 74
  Evil Where the Price Is Worth It	p. 87
  Wars of Choice and Strategic Imbecilities	p. 95
  Pearl Harbor and ?peration Iraqi Freedom?/td>	p. 95
  The Emperor System and Imperial Presidency	p. 101
  Choosing War	p. 111
  Strategic Imbecilities	p. 115
  Deception and Delusion	p. 125
  Victory Disease and the Gates of Hell	p. 132
  ?earl Harbor?as Godsend	p. 138
  Ground Zero 1945 and Ground Zero 2001 Terror and Mass Destruction
  ?iroshima?as Code	p. 151
  Air War and Terror Bombing in World War II	p. 162
  Ghost Cities	p. 162
  Extirpating ?oncombatants?/td>	p. 166
  ?ncreasing the Terror?In Germany	p. 171
  Targeting Japan	p. 175
  Firebombing the Great Cities	p. 179
  ?urn Jobs?and ?econdary Targets?/td>	p. 184
  Morale, Shock, and Psychological Warfare	p. 187
  ?he Most Terrible Bomb in the History of the World?/td>	p. 197
  Ground Zeroes, 1945	p. 197
  Anticipating Zero	p. 205
  Becoming Death	p. 208
  Ending the War and Saving American Lives	p. 212
  The Irresistible Logic of Mass Destruction	p. 221
  Brute Force	p. 221
  August 1945 and the Rejected Alternatives	p. 225
  Unconditional Surrender	p. 233
  Power Politics and the Cold War	p. 241
  Partisan Politics	p. 248
  Sweetness, Beauty, and Idealistic Annihilation	p. 251
  Scientific Sweetness and Technological Imperatives	p. 252
  Technocratic Momentum and the War Machine	p. 257
  The Aesthetics of Mass Destruction	p. 268
  Revenge	p. 275
  Idealistic Annihilation	p. 281
  New Evils in the World: 1945/2001	p. 286
  Evil Beyond Recall	p. 286
  Arrogating God	p. 289
  Holy War Against the West: Seisen and Jihad	p. 294
  Ground Zeroes: State and Nonstate Terror	p. 299
  Managing Savagery	p. 301
  Wars and Occupations Winning the Peace, Losing the Peace
  Occupied Japan and Occupied Iraq	p. 313
  Winning the War, Losing the Peace	p. 313
  Occupied Japan and the Eye of the Beholder	p. 315
  Incommensurable Worlds	p. 318
  Planning Postwar Japan	p. 324
  Eyes Wide Shut: Occupying Iraq	p. 338
  Repudiating Nation Building	p. 346
  Baghdad Burning	p. 353
  Convergence of a Sort: Law, Justice, and Transgression	p. 359
  Jiggering the Law	p. 359
  Legal and Illegal Occupation	p. 362
  War Crimes and the Ricochet of Victor's Justice	p. 366
  Spheres of Influence and the Limbo of Defeated Armies	p. 377
  Dissipating Intangible Assets	p. 389
  Nation Building and Market Fundamentalism	p. 394
  Controls and Capitalisms	p. 394
  Corruption and Crime	p. 397
  Successful and Disastrous Demilitarization	p. 400
  ?eneralists?Versus ?rea Experts?/td>	p. 404
  Privatizing Nation Building	p. 408
  Rendering Iraq ?pen For Business?/td>	p. 413
  Aid In Two Eras	p. 418
  Combating Carpetbagging in an Earlier Time	p. 429
  Mixed Legacies in an Age of Forgetting	p. 431
  Epilogue: Fools' Errands and Fools' Gold	p. 437
  Secular Priesthoods and Faith-Based Policies	p. 437
  Fools' Errands	p. 443
  Fools' Gold	p. 446
  Notes	p. 453
  Illustration Credits	p. 553
  Index	p. 557
  Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

기본정보

ISBN	9780393061505 ( 0393061507 )
발행(출시)일자	2010년 09월 07일
쪽수	640쪽
크기	168 * 243 * 41 mm / 1011 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어