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First World War Central Power Prison Camps, Kenneth Steuer
First World War Central Power Prison Camps, Kenneth Steuer
History Faculty Publications
This is an introduction to the First World War Central Power POW Camps photo gallery that is a companion work to Steuer's e-book, Pursuit of an "Unparalleled Opportunity": The American YMCA and Prisoner-of-War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I, 1914-1923. The images include a wide range of photographs, drawings, paintings, maps, and other images from Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, German, and Turkish prison camps during the First World War which illustrate the daily life of Allied war prisoners in and outside of prison facilities. The text and database images show the activities in these camps and …
Historiography Of The Asia-Pacific War In Japan, Takashi Yoshida
Historiography Of The Asia-Pacific War In Japan, Takashi Yoshida
History Faculty Publications
Interpretations of Japan’s involvement in the Pacific War and its war crimes have changed over time, and corresponding changes in social and political contexts both within and outside Japan have influenced these evolving interpretations. Today the people of Japan are far from a consensus over the meaning of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45), and disputes relating to such topics as the Nanjing Massacre, Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea and Taiwan, and the sexual enslavement of the so-called Comfort Women continue to haunt the national memory. However, the current divisions over the significance of the war did not always exist. To the …
Revising The Past, Complicating The Future: The Yushukan War Museum In Modern Japanese History, Takashi Yoshida
Revising The Past, Complicating The Future: The Yushukan War Museum In Modern Japanese History, Takashi Yoshida
History Faculty Publications
In this three part series, we introduce historical museums in Japan and their role in public education. Following this introduction to peace museums, Ms. Nishino Rumiko, a founder of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM), introduces WAM’s activities and the 2000 Citizens Tribunal on the ‘comfort women’. The final article is by Mr. Kim Yeonghwan, the former associate director of Grassroots House Peace Museum who describes the peace and reconciliation programs that the Museum sponsors.
The Nanjing Massacre. Changing Contours Of History And Memory In Japan, China, And The U.S., Takashi Yoshida
The Nanjing Massacre. Changing Contours Of History And Memory In Japan, China, And The U.S., Takashi Yoshida
History Faculty Publications
In Japan, China, the United States and beyond, arguably no Japanese wartime atrocity against China is more widely known than the Nanjing Massacre. [1] Whatever the significance of mere name recognition, however, the history and memory of the Nanjing Massacre are profoundly complex. Indeed, even the phrase “Nanjing Massacre” (hereafter NM) remains contested, and to this day there are circles within which the words cannot be spoken without stirring deep feeling and disagreement.
Die Darstellung Und Wertung Des Deutschen Bauernkrieges 1525 In Zwei Jahrhunderten, Ernst Breisach
Die Darstellung Und Wertung Des Deutschen Bauernkrieges 1525 In Zwei Jahrhunderten, Ernst Breisach
History Faculty Publications
This dissertation was submitted for the doctorate degree in the department of philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1946. The English translation of the title is: "The Depiction and Interpretation of the German Peasant War of 1525 During Two Centuries."