Hiroshima Traces

Hiroshima Traces
Title Hiroshima Traces PDF eBook
Author Lisa Yoneyama
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 326
Release 1999-05-16
Genre History
ISBN 9780520085879

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Remembering Hiroshima is a complicated and highly politicized process. This book explores some unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved, including history textbook controversies, tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins and survivor testimonials.

The Age of Hiroshima

The Age of Hiroshima
Title The Age of Hiroshima PDF eBook
Author Michael D. Gordin
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 446
Release 2020-01-14
Genre History
ISBN 0691193452

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A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and around the world. Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from international relations and political theory to cultural history and science and technology studies, who together provide new perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the human imagination—the end of one age and the dawn of another. The Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness, and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.

Hiroshima

Hiroshima
Title Hiroshima PDF eBook
Author Ran Zwigenberg
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 347
Release 2014-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 1107071275

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An original and compelling new analysis of Hiroshima's place within the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory.

Hiroshima

Hiroshima
Title Hiroshima PDF eBook
Author Ran Zwigenberg
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 347
Release 2014-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 1316143686

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In 1962, a Hiroshima peace delegation and an Auschwitz survivor's organization exchanged relics and testimonies, including the bones and ashes of Auschwitz victims. This symbolic encounter, in which the dead were literally conscripted in the service of the politics of the living, serves as a cornerstone of this volume, capturing how memory was utilized to rebuild and redefine a shattered world. This is a powerful study of the contentious history of remembrance and the commemoration of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in the context of the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory. Emphasizing the importance of nuclear issues in the 1950s and 1960s, Zwigenberg traces the rise of global commemoration culture through the reconstruction of Hiroshima as a 'City of Bright Peace', memorials and museums, global tourism, developments in psychiatry, and the emergence of the figure of the survivor-witness and its consequences for global memory practices.

Hiroshima Notes

Hiroshima Notes
Title Hiroshima Notes PDF eBook
Author Kenzaburō Ōe
Publisher Grove Press
Pages 144
Release 1996
Genre History
ISBN 9780802134646

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Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe's account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years that follow, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation. It is a heartrending portrait of a ravaged city -- the "human face" in the midst of nuclear destruction.

Hiroshima

Hiroshima
Title Hiroshima PDF eBook
Author John Hersey
Publisher Vintage
Pages 210
Release 2020-06-23
Genre History
ISBN 0593082362

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Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

Cultures of War

Cultures of War
Title Cultures of War PDF eBook
Author John W. Dower
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 645
Release 2010
Genre Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
ISBN 0393340686

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WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America's preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and analyzed the brutality that attended World War II in the Pacific, as seen from both the Japanese and the American sides. Embracing Defeat (1999), winner of numerous honors including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, dealt with Japan's struggle to start over in a shattered land in the immediate aftermath of the Pacific War, when the defeated country was occupied by the U.S.-led Allied powers. Turning to an even larger canvas, Dower now examines the cultures of war revealed by four powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror.