Hiroshima in History and Memory

Name: Hiroshima in History and Memory
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ISBN: 9780521566827

ISBN-10: 0521566827

ISBN-13: 9780521566827

Edition: 1996

Authors: Michael J. Hogan

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In this timely collection of essays, prominent historians survey the Hiroshima story from the American decision to drop the first atomic bomb to the recent controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit in Washington, D.C. The first essay surveys the literature on the atomic bombing of Japan, while the second and third essays evaluate the decisions that led to that event. The remaining essays discuss how the Japanese and American people have remembered Hiroshima in the years since the end of World War II. They emphasize the construction of an official memory of Hiroshima, the challenge posed by alternative or counter-memories, and the tension between history and memory in the Hiroshima story. The…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/29/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


The authors



Hiroshima in history and memory: an introduction




The decision to use the bomb: a historiographical update




Understanding the atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender: missed opportunities, little-known near disasters and modern memory




Japan's delayed surrender: a reinterpretation




The bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory




Exotic resonances: Hiroshima in American memory




The quest for a peace culture: the A-bomb survivors' long struggle and the new movement for redressing foreign victims of Japan's war Seiitsu Tachibana



History, collective memory and the decision to use the bomb




The Enola Gay controversy: history, memory and the politics of presentation