End of Empire: One Hundred Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World (Asia Insights)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
8776941833
ISBN 13
9788776941833
Category
GBHistory
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Publication Year
2016
Publisher
Pages
304
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Description
European events are dominating global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II though no doubt Hiroshima will be remembered on 6 August as usual. Thereafter, the 70th anniversaries of Indonesian, Vietnamese and Korean independence will get mainly local attention. Aiming to redress this imbalance, ‘End of Empire’ focuses on a brief, 100-day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia – a time when the Indonesian and Vietnamese revolutions were born, the fragile wartime truce been Communists and Nationalists in China began to fray, and the first steps were made in Japan towards a new democratic order. Following a chronological order, the volume combines daily events with commentary, photographs, maps and personal accounts. More importantly, it is part of a radical, multi-faceted project to commemorate the period not just in print but also on screen and in ‘real-time broadcasts’ published day by day. Here, perhaps, is the form of scholarly publishing and learning of the future but without abandoning traditional standards.50+ illustrationsFor sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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