Yokohama burning : the deadly 1923 earthquake and fire that helped forge the path to World War II /...
Yokohama burning : the deadly 1923 earthquake and fire that helped forge the path to World War II /...
Yokohama burning : the deadly 1923 earthquake and fire that helped forge the path to World War II / Joshua Hammer.
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New York : Free Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N952.1364/1
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English
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xvi, 313 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Free Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2006.
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"Hammer shows that the calamity led in fact to a hardening of racist attitudes in both Japan and the United States, and drove Japan, then a fledgling democracy, into the hands of radical militarists with imperial ambitions. He argues that the forces that ripped through the archipelago on September 1, 1923, would reverberate, traumatically, for deca...
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Yokohama burning : the deadly 1923 earthquake and fire that helped forge the path to World War II / Joshua Hammer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N952.1364/1
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74VKKVDD8bGA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKVDD8bGA
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ISBN
0743264657
9780743264655
DDC
952.1364032
MMS ID
991021857129702626
