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The Age of Hiroshima

Title
The Age of Hiroshima [electronic resource] / ed. by Michael D. Gordin, G. John Ikenberry.
Publication
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]

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Additional Authors
  • Biswas, Shampa.
  • Craig, Campbell.
  • Fujiwara, Kiichi.
  • Gavin, Francis J.
  • Gavin, Francis.
  • Goldstein, Avery.
  • Gordin, Michael D.
  • Holloway, David.
  • Ikenberry, G. John.
  • Malloy, Sean L.
  • Mukai, Wakana.
  • Nehring, Holger.
  • Raghavan, Srinath.
  • Sasaki, Takuya.
  • Schmid, Sonja D.
  • Spektor, Matias.
  • Tannenwald, Nina.
  • Tomotsugu, Shinsuke.
  • Wellerstein, Alex.
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  • Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716
  • Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518
  • Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730
  • Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525
  • Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP Frontlist eBook-Package 2020 9783110690088
Description
1 online resource (448 p.) : 2 b/w illus.
Summary
A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and around the world.Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from international relations and political theory to cultural history and science and technology studies, who together provide new perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the human imagination-the end of one age and the dawn of another.The Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness, and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.
Uniform Title
Age of Hiroshima (Online)
Subject
  • Atomic bomb > History > 20th century
  • Atomic bomb > United States > History
  • Nuclear weapons > Government policy > 20th century
  • Nuclear weapons > Government policy > 21st century
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Japan
  • World politics > 20th century
  • World politics > 21st century
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
System Details (note)
  • Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Language (note)
  • In English.
Contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Hiroshima's Legacies -- Part I. Decisions and Choices -- 2. The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker: FDR and the Road Not Taken -- 3. The Kyoto Misconception: What Truman Knew, and Didn't Know, about Hiroshima -- 4. "When You Have to Deal with a Beast": Race, Ideology, and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb -- 5. Racing toward Armageddon? Soviet Views of Strategic Nuclear War, 1955-1972 -- 6. The Evolution of Japanese Politics and Diplomacy under the Long Shadows of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1974-1991 -- Part II. Movements and Resistances -- 7. The Bandung Conference and the Origins of Japan's Atoms for Peace Aid Program for Asian Countries -- 8. India in the Early Nuclear Age -- 9. The Unnecessary Option to Go Nuclear: Japan's Nonnuclear Policy in an Era of Uncertainty, 1950s-1960s -- 10. Nuclear Revolution and Hegemonic Hierarchies: How Global Hiroshima Played Out in South America -- 11. Remembering War, Forgetting Hiroshima: "Euroshima" and the West German Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movements in the Cold Wa -- 12. Hiroshima, Nanjing, and Yasukuni: Contending Discourses on the Second World War in Japan -- Part III. Revolutions and Transformations -- 13. The End of the Beginning: China and the Consolidation of the Nuclear Revolution -- 14. Data, Discourse, and Disruption: Radiation Effects and Nuclear Orders -- 15. Nuclear Harms and Global Disarmament -- 16. The Legacy of the Nuclear Taboo in the Twenty-First Century -- 17. History and the Unanswered Questions of the Nuclear Age: Reflections on Assumptions, Uncertainty, and Method in Nuclear Studies -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index
LCCN
10.1515/9780691195292
OCLC
ssj0002443619
Title
The Age of Hiroshima [electronic resource] / ed. by Michael D. Gordin, G. John Ikenberry.
Imprint
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
System Details
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Language
In English.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Biswas, Shampa.
Biswas, Shampa.
Craig, Campbell.
Craig, Campbell.
Fujiwara, Kiichi.
Fujiwara, Kiichi.
Gavin, Francis J.
Gavin, Francis.
Goldstein, Avery.
Goldstein, Avery.
Gordin, Michael D.
Gordin, Michael D.
Holloway, David.
Holloway, David.
Ikenberry, G. John.
Ikenberry, G. John.
Malloy, Sean L.
Malloy, Sean L.
Mukai, Wakana.
Mukai, Wakana.
Nehring, Holger.
Nehring, Holger.
Raghavan, Srinath.
Raghavan, Srinath.
Sasaki, Takuya.
Sasaki, Takuya.
Schmid, Sonja D.
Schmid, Sonja D.
Spektor, Matias.
Spektor, Matias.
Tannenwald, Nina.
Tannenwald, Nina.
Tomotsugu, Shinsuke.
Tomotsugu, Shinsuke.
Wellerstein, Alex.
Wellerstein, Alex.
Found In:
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP Frontlist eBook-Package 2020 9783110690088
Other Standard Identifier
10.1515/9780691195292 doi
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