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SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of domestic, regional, and global crisis.
Japan's occupation of Java is here revealed in a radically new and nuanced light, as an ambiguous encounter revolutionary in the degree of mutual interests that drew the two sides together, fascinating and tragic in its evolution, and profound in the legacies left behind. Mark structures his study around a diverse group of Japanese and Indonesians captivated by the wartime vision of a 'Greater Asia.' The book is not only the first transnational study of Japan's wartime occupation of Java, but the first to focus on the Second World War experience in transnational terms 'on the ground' anywhere in Asia.
Breaking new ground interpretatively, thematically and narratively, Mark's monumental study is of vital significance for students and scholars of modern Asian and global history.
This book is published in partnership with Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute (http://weai.columbia.edu/japans-occup...).
Japan's occupation of Java is here revealed in a radically new and nuanced light, as an ambiguous encounter revolutionary in the degree of mutual interests that drew the two sides together, fascinating and tragic in its evolution, and profound in the legacies left behind. Mark structures his study around a diverse group of Japanese and Indonesians captivated by the wartime vision of a 'Greater Asia.' The book is not only the first transnational study of Japan's wartime occupation of Java, but the first to focus on the Second World War experience in transnational terms 'on the ground' anywhere in Asia.
Breaking new ground interpretatively, thematically and narratively, Mark's monumental study is of vital significance for students and scholars of modern Asian and global history.
This book is published in partnership with Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute (http://weai.columbia.edu/japans-occup...).
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Published July 12, 2018
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He's employed at Leiden U [since 2003] Japan Studies. Born 1965 in US, PhD COlumbia, in modern Japanese history.
Interivew in LEIDRAAD about his 2015-begun research project called 'Global histories of WWII: iMperial crises and contested loyalties' to look at WW II from non-European viewpoints.
WW II as a transnational war between colonial powers.
Reviewer mentions Eric Wolf's bestseller 'Europe and people without history' on European expansion and reactions to it by those colonized. Mark then mentions:
Provincializing Europe, by Depesh Chakrabarty, 2000, as a book not about Europe that still sold well.
He's employed at Leiden U [since 2003] Japan Studies. Born 1965 in US, PhD COlumbia, in modern Japanese history.
Interivew in LEIDRAAD about his 2015-begun research project called 'Global histories of WWII: iMperial crises and contested loyalties' to look at WW II from non-European viewpoints.
WW II as a transnational war between colonial powers.
Reviewer mentions Eric Wolf's bestseller 'Europe and people without history' on European expansion and reactions to it by those colonized. Mark then mentions:
Provincializing Europe, by Depesh Chakrabarty, 2000, as a book not about Europe that still sold well.
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