Living with the Bomb

American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-1-56324-967-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hein, Laura E.

Selden, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Introduction; 1: Commemoration and Silence; II: Commemoration and Censorship; 2: Triumphal and Tragic Narratives of the War in Asia; 3: Between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki; 4: Making Things Visible; 5: Commemoration Controversies; 6: Mass Death in Miniature; 7: Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline; III: Contending Constituencies; 8: Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 9: The Mushroom Cloud and National Psyches; 10: Memory Matters; 11: Were We the Enemy?; 12: Remembering Hiroshima at a Nuclear Weapons Laboratory; IV: Afterword; 13: Learning about Patriotism, Decency, and the Bomb

Über Autor(innen)

Laura E. Hein, Mark Selden