Embracing Defeat

Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, this monumental new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experi...(展開全部) Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, this monumental new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experiences of humiliation at the hands of a foreign power and liberation from the demands of a suicidal nationalism. The result is a titanic history, and a landmark book. 約翰.W.道爾，美國麻省理工學院歷史學教授，美國藝術科學院院±，美國曆史學會委員。主要研究領域是近現代日本史和美日關係，是相關領域最重要的學者之一。他的研究著作多次獲包括普立策獎和美國國家圖書獎在內的重要學術獎項。