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Hirohito and the making of modern Japan / Herbert P. Bix.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 006019314X
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Contents:
Part I - the prince's education, 1901-1921 -- The boy, the family, and the Meiji legacies -- Cultivating an emperor -- Confronting the real world -- Part II - the politics of good intentions, 1922-1930 -- The regency and the crisis of Taisho democracy -- The new monarchy and the new nationalism -- A political monarch emerges -- Part III - his majesty's wars, 1931-1945 -- The Manchurian transformation -- Restoration and repression -- Holy war -- Stalemate and escalation -- Prologue to Pearl Harbor -- The ordeal of supreme command -- Delayed surrender -- Part IV - the unexamined life, 1945-1989 -- A monarchy reinvented -- The Tokyo trial -- Salvaging the imperial mystique -- The quiet years and the legacies of Showa.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks DS889.8.B59 2000 1 Available 33710000889753

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I - the prince's education, 1901-1921 -- The boy, the family, and the Meiji legacies -- Cultivating an emperor -- Confronting the real world -- Part II - the politics of good intentions, 1922-1930 -- The regency and the crisis of Taisho democracy -- The new monarchy and the new nationalism -- A political monarch emerges -- Part III - his majesty's wars, 1931-1945 -- The Manchurian transformation -- Restoration and repression -- Holy war -- Stalemate and escalation -- Prologue to Pearl Harbor -- The ordeal of supreme command -- Delayed surrender -- Part IV - the unexamined life, 1945-1989 -- A monarchy reinvented -- The Tokyo trial -- Salvaging the imperial mystique -- The quiet years and the legacies of Showa.