| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index. |
| Contents |
Geography and things uniquely Japanese -- East meets West -- Isolation versus engagement revisited -- From engagement to expansion -- From expansion to disaster -- Reconstruction and cold war -- Pacific powers : 1969-1989 -- Fin de Siècle and a new world disorder. |
| Summary |
"Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country. Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices begins by explaining Japan's unique location and topography in comparison to other countries. Peter J. Woolley then examines the ways in which the country's political leaders in various eras understood and acted on those geographical limitations and advantages. Proceeding chronologically, he compares the Tokugawa era, the opening to the West, the Meiji Restoration, the long era of colonialization, industrialization and liberalization, the militarist reaction and World War II, the occupation, the Cold War, and finally the rudderless fin de siecle. Finally Woolley demonstrates how Japan's strategic situation in the twenty-first century is informed by past and present geostrategic calculations as well as by current domestic and international changes. |
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For students and scholars of U.S.-Japan relations and of Japanese history and politics, this book offers informed readers a fresh perspective on a critical international relationship."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Geopolitics -- Japan.
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Geopolitics. |
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Japan. |
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Japan -- Historical geography.
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Historical geography. |
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Japan -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Japan -- Strategic aspects.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Cover Title |
Geography & Japan's strategic choices |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Woolley, Peter J., 1960- Geography and Japan's strategic choices. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, Inc., ©2005 (DLC) 2005017468 (OCoLC)60931289 |
| ISBN |
9781429490160 (electronic book) |
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1429490160 (electronic book) |
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1574886673 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781574886672 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1574886681 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781574886689 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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