The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective

World War Zero, Volume II
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15416-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1266 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

Like Volume one, Volume two of 'The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective' examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict of the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War I, actually was a precursor to the catastrophe that engulfed the world less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This study also helps us better understand Japan as it emerged at the beginning of its fateful 20th century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinberg, John

Wolff, David

Marks, Steve

Menning, Bruce

Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye, David

Yokote, Shinji

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, The Editors
Introduction, Iriye Akira

I.Military Visions and Revisions
1. Study Your Enemy: Russian Military and Naval Attaches in Japan - Wada Haruki
2. Miscalculating One’s Enemies: Russian Intelligence Prepares for War - Bruce Menning
3. Differences Regarding Togo’s Surprise Attack on Port Arthur - Aizawa Kiyoshi
4. Between Two Japano-Russian Wars: Strategic Learning Re-appraised - Yokote Shinji
5. Military Observers, Eurocentrism and World War Zero - David Jones
6. Approaching Total War: Ivan Bloch’s Disturbing Vision - Tohmatsu Haruo

II.The Home Front
7. Japan Justifies War by the “Open Door”: 1903 as Turning Point - Kato Yoko
8. Riding the Rails: The Japanese Railways Meet the Challenge of War - Steven Ericson
9. Japan’s Monetary Mobilization for War - Ono Keishi
10. Patriotic Recession: Kyoto Responds to War - Takemoto Tomoyuki
11. Why Did Japan Fail to Become the “Britain” of East Asia? - Tadokoro Masayuki
12. Unsuccessful National Unity: The Russian Home Front in 1904 - Tsuchiya Yoshifuru

III.The Cultural Prism
13. Shifting Contours of Memory and History, 1904-1980 - Chiba Isao
14. White Hope or Yellow Peril?: Bushido, Britain and the Raj - Hashimoto Yorimitsu
15. Natsume Soseki’s Nuanced Views of the Conflict - Tsukamoto Toshiaki
16. Serial War: Egawa Tatsuya’s Tale of the Russo-Japanese War - Kitamura Yukiko

IV. Regional Relations during and after the War
17. A Damocles Sword?: Korea’s Hopes Betrayed - Ku Daeyeol
18. The War and US-Korean Relations - Kim Ki-jung
19. The “Eastern Miscellany” Informs the Chinese Public - Li Anshan
20. Qing China’s Northeast Crescent: The Great Game Revisited - Nakami Tatsuo
21. Portsmouth Denied: The Chinese Attempt to Attend - Hirakawa Sachiko
22. The “Rat Minister”: Komura Jutaro and US-Japan Relations - Tosh Minohara

Über Autor(innen)

David Wolff is Professor of Eurasian History at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
Steven G. Marks is Professor of History at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Bruce W. Menning is a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is Associate Professor of Russian and East Asian History at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada.
John W. Steinberg is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University.
Yokote Shinji is Professor of Russian History and Politics at Keio University.