Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents and Essays / Edition 1

by Akira Iriye

Overview

With more than 30 primary documents, including proposals, memoranda, decrypted messages, and imperial conferences, Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War explores how and why the United States and Japan went to war in 1941.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312147884
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	02/15/1999
Series:	Bedford Cultural Editions Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	928,298
Product dimensions:	5.42(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Akira Iriye is professor of history at Harvard University, where he was appointed the Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and served as president of the American Historical Association in 1988. He has published widely on American diplomatic history and American-Asian relations, inlcuding Cultural Internationalism adn World Order (1997) and Japan and the Wider World (1997).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Maps

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: "THE DAY OF INFAMY"
The War in Europe
The War in Asia
The American Dilemma
Toward Pearl Harbor

The Documents
Imperial Conference, November 5, 1941
Plan A and Plan B, November 7 and November 20, 1941

Washington Discussions on China and the Tripartite (Axis) Pact
Cordell Hull, Memorandum, November 17, 1941
Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 18, 1941

Discussing Plan B
Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 20, 1941
Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 22, 1941
Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 22, 1941
Draft Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 22, 1941
Revised Draft of Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 24, 1941
Final Draft of Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 25, 1941

Discarding the Modus Vivendi
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cable to Winston S. Churchill, November 24, 1941
Winston Churchill, Cable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 26, 1941
Winston Churchill, Cable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 30, 1941

The Hull Note
Cordell Hull, Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement between the United States and Japan, November 26, 1941
Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 26, 1941

Japan's View of the Hull Note
Tokyo to Berlin, November 30, 1941
Washington to Tokyo, December 1, 1941
Tokyo to Washington, December 1, 1941
Tokyo to London, December 1, 1941
Tokyo to Washington, December 1, 1941
Washington to Tokyo, December 2, 1941
Washington to Tokyo, December 2, 1941
Tokyo to Washington, December 2, 1941
Washington to Tokyo, December 3, 1941
Washington to Tokyo, December 5, 1941
Tokyo to Washington, December 6, 1941
Imperial Conference, December 1, 1941

Japan's December 7 Note
Kichisaburo Nomura, Memorandum, December 7, 1941
Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, December 7, 1941
A Declaration of War That Was Never Sent, December _th, 1941
Illustrations

PART TWO: INTRODUCTION: PEARL HARBOR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT

China
The Soviet Union
Great Britain
The British Commonwealth
The Dutch East Indies
The Philippines
French Indochina
Germany

The Essays
Sumio Hatano and Sadao Asada, Japan's Decision to "Go South"
Minoru Nomura, The Petroleum Question
Waldo H. Heinrichs, Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and the U.S.-Japanese Crisis
David Kahn, Pearl Harbor as an Intelligence Failure
Katsumi Usui, The Chinese-Japanese War
Wang Xi, China and U.S.-Japanese Relations
Anthony Best, The British Perspective
Ken'ichi Gotô, The Indonesian Perspective
Bernd Martin, The German Perspective
Alexei M. Filitov, The Soviet Perspective

APPENDICES

Chronology of Events Related to Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (1931-1941)
Selected Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

Assembles some 30 primary documents, including proposals, memoranda, decrypted messages, and imperial conference reports, presenting diplomatic exchanges from both American and Japanese perspectives to determine how and why the US and Japan went to war in 1941. A detailed introduction provides background on Japanese aggression in China and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and economic unrest and isolationism in the US. Readings add an interpretive dimension, placing Pearl Harbor in global context. Essays from the perspectives of various countries involved explain how countries applied pressure, offered assistance, and affected negotiations. Includes b&w photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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