'This is an important book that uncovers some remarkable secrets... Connor is an outstanding historian of wartime Asia and he tells his story well.' Richard J. Aldrich, author of GCHQ
Six weeks after Japan's surrender in August 1945, British and Japanese troops were fighting side-by-side against nationalist revolutionaries in 'peacekeeping' operations in Indonesia and Vietnam. In Java, Dutch civilians cheered as their former jailors, members of the infamous kenpeitai rescued them from what had seemed certain death at the hands of armed mobs. In November 1945 a Japanese Army officer was recommended for a British Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for services rendered to South-East Asia Command after his troops helped restore order and save thousands of civilian lives.
'The Japanese may be so deployed and...drastic action including shooting should be taken against any who refuse'. Admiral Mountbatten (to War Office), Kandy, 24 August 1945.
'The men concerned are surely Japanese prisoners-of-war and if the War Office, in order to evade compliance with the Geneva Convention, have decided to call them something else, this should not...avoid responsibility for decent treatment.' Foreign Office, London, 18 March 1946.
In August 1945 Britain accepted responsibility for the care and repatriation of over 750,000 Japanese military personnel in Southeast Asia. Short of manpower and resources in Burma and Malaya, and with its French and Dutch Allies' colonial territories of Indo-China (FIC) and the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) embroiled in revolution, Britain found it expedient to press the Japanese-who were denied Prisoner of War (PoW) status-into military operations in support of European colonial interests and then ignore repatriation commitments by deliberately retaining over 100,000 as mass, unpaid labour.
'[A] stain which would blemish the honor of the United Kingdom...' General Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo, March 1947.
Mountbatten's Samurai reveals a Britain struggling to match Great Power status and obligation without a Great Power budget or capability in Southeast Asia in the face of strong criticism from the US State Department in Washington, General Douglas MacArthur's SCAP GHQ Occupation headquarters in Tokyo, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), the Japanese Government and even the Vatican.
'A perceptive and shrewd analysis of the prolonged and secret diplomatic stand-off between London and Washington over Britain's post-war use of tens of thousands of surrendered Japanese in combat operations in support of European colonial interests in contravention of the Geneva Convention, and later as deliberately retained, unpaid labour in breach of the Potsdam Agreement'. (Publisher's Catalogue)
Автор: Puchta et al Название: Think British English 3 Workbook + Online Practice ISBN: 1107563259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107563254 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 8330.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In this study, Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of US and Canadian citizenship that are enacted, renegotiated, and revised in modern literary texts, particularly during periods of emergence and crisis.
Название: The Twentieth-Century Welfare State ISBN: 0333669207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333669204 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 99680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The welfare state has been one of the most significant developments in 20th-century Britain. This work narrates its principal changes and provides an introduction to issues of finance and funding, providers and users, and the role of the welfare state as a system of social stratification.
Название: The Causes of the English Civil War ISBN: 0333684753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333684757 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 34470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Fully revised and updated, this second edition of the standard textbook on the causes of the English Civil War provides a comprehensive guide to the historiographical debates surrounding this crucial period of English history.
Название: Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool ISBN: 0333946367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333946367 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 32600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this study, John Derry shows that the late 18th-century political system, known for its corruption, was more remarkable for its resilience than for its defects. He argues that it succeeded in meeting the challenges placed on it, in a time of war, revolution and major social change.
Название: England and Europe in the Sixteenth Century ISBN: 0333567757 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333567753 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 32600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, security concerns, religious ideology and commercial interests on the making of policy.
Автор: Fradera Josep Название: The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires ISBN: 0691217343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691217345 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entitiesHistorians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers-Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States-and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects.
Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years' War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon's "special laws," which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted "specialness" in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies.
In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.
Автор: Finaldi Название: A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907 ISBN: 1138330019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138330016 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 47970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy's imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and objectives pursued.
The events that brought Italy to open conflict with the Ethiopian Empire culminating in the Italian defeat at Adowa in March 1896 are central to the book. However its scope is much broader, as it considers the establishment of Italian power in Eritrea as well as Somalia before and after the defeat. By telling its history, it explains why Italy emerged irresolute and humiliated in this, its first thrust into Africa, yet nonetheless determined to pursue expansion in the future. The seeds for the conquest of Libya in 1911 and Ethiopia in 1935 had been sown.
Автор: John C. Mitcham Название: Race and Imperial Defence in the British World, 1870–1914 ISBN: 131650395X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316503959 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A comprehensive account of the cultural and racial origins of the imperial security partnership between Britain and the dominions. John C. Mitcham demonstrates how a shared concept of `Britishness` led to closer relations between the self-governing states of the empire, ultimately resulting in a unified effort during the Great War.
Автор: Cheriau, Rapha?l Название: Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions ISBN: 0367339730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367339739 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the second half of the 19th century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests.
Автор: Cheriau, Raphael (Lycee Francais de Shanghai, China) Название: Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions ISBN: 0367770792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367770792 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 40820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the second half of the 19th century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests.
Автор: Streets Heather Название: Martial Races ISBN: 0719069637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719069635 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 28150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire`s fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourses of `martial races.` -- .
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