容赦なき戦争―太平洋戦争における人種差別

by John W. Dower

日米ともに人種に対する偏見と差別をつのらせて戦われた太平洋戦争。その実態と歴史的背景を克明に追った大著。『敗北を抱きしめて』の前著として必読。「9月11日」以後についての緊急寄稿を付す。

Tankobon Hardcover

About the author

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.