The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and United States East Asian Policy, 1938-1941
Author : Irvine H. Anderson
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Irvine H. Anderson
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Irvine H. Anderson
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Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Corporations, Foreign
ISBN : 9780608178493
Author : Irvine H. Anderson Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400867002
Oil was a basic source of conflict between the United States and Japan. This book examines the role played by the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company in the crisis that led to Pearl Harbor. "Stanvac" was the largest American supplier of oil to Japan and represented the single largest American direct investment in Asia before the war. In the context of Stanvac's relations with various governments, the author examines the ways in which United States petroleum policy was formulated and the arrangements by which Japan sought to increase its oil reserves. He provides new insight into the impact of the financial freeze of July 1941, the origins of the Pacific War, and the complexities of oil diplomacy. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Irvine H. Anderson
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Corporations, Foreign
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Author : Irvine H. Anderson
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : John Martin Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842025553
Reflects various advances in scholarship.
Author : Waldo Heinrichs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 1990-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199879044
As the first comprehensive treatment of the American entry into World War II to appear in over thirty-five years, Waldo Heinrichs' volume places American policy in a global context, covering both the European and Asian diplomatic and military scenes, with Roosevelt at the center. Telling a tale of ever-broadening conflict, this vivid narrative weaves back and forth from the battlefields in the Soviet Union, to the intense policy debates within Roosevelt's administration, to the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, to the precarious and delicate negotiations with Japan. Refuting the popular portrayal of Roosevelt as a vacillating, impulsive man who displayed no organizational skills in his decision-making during this period, Heinrichs presents him as a leader who acted with extreme caution and deliberation, who always kept his options open, and who, once Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union stalled in July, 1941, acted rapidly and with great determination. This masterful account of a key moment in American history captures the tension faced by Roosevelt, Churchill, Stimson, Hull, and numerous others as they struggled to shape American policy in the climactic nine months before Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
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ISBN : 1428993673
Author : Akira Iriye
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674695825
Power and Culture challenges existing assumptions about the war in the Pacific. By focusing on the interplay between culture and international relations, one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of United States–Japanese affairs offers a startling reassessment of what the war really meant to the two combatants. Akira Iriye examines the Japanese–American war for the first time from the cultural perspectives of both countries, arguing that it was more a search for international order than a ruthless pursuit of power. His thesis is bold, for he convincingly demonstrates that throughout the war many Japanese leaders shared with their American counterparts an essentially Wilsonian vision of international cooperation. As the war drew to a close, these statesmen began to plan for a cooperative world structure that was remarkably similar to the ideas of American policymakers. Indeed, as Iriye shows, the stunning success of Japanese–American postwar relations can be understood only in the light of a deep convergence of their ideals. Iriye has drawn his conclusions from original research, using official Japanese archives and recently declassified American documents. These offer a totally new perspective on the ways leaders in both countries actually viewed the war they were waging.
Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136156534
Recent controversies about Pearl Harbour have highlighted the need for a new assessment of British policy towards Japan during the period leading up to the Pacific War. Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour provides a thorough and authoritative account of British efforts to avert conflict with Japan, and makes use of the most recently released material from British archives, including information from intelligence sources. This is the most comprehensive study so far of British policy towards East Asia in this period. It illustrates the extent of British weakness in the region and the degree to which the constant need to appease American opinion hamstrung Britain's ability to achieve an understanding with Japan.