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Title America's wars in Asia : a cultural approach to history and memory / edited by Philip West, Steven I. Levine, and Jackie Hiltz.

Publication Info. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  950.4 A512A    Check Shelf
Description viii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Note "An East gate book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: sounding the human dimensions of war -- Remembering beginnings and endings: the fiftieth anniversary at Pearl Harbor and the Enola Gay controversy at the National Air and Space Museum -- The bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory -- Japanese films about the Pacific war -- Our forgotten war: the Korean war in Korean and American popular culture -- Fragmentation in American and Vietnamese war fiction -- American and Vietnamese poetry of witness:
bridge over troubled waters -- Moral judgment in war and crimes against humanity -- My Pacific war revisited -- A double exposure of the war -- Through American eyes: combat experiences and memories of Korea and Vietnam -- The Korean war at the dinner table -- Myth of the heroic soldier and images of the enemy -- The age of the world target -- Controversies surrounding the Asia-Pacific war: the Tokyo war crimes trial -- Tutoring democracy: Michigan State University and
the politics of reform in South Vietnam -- American wars within world history -- The Indian wars and the Vietnam war.
Subject War and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
War and society -- Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Memory -- Social aspects -- United States.
Memory -- Social aspects -- Asia.
Asia -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Asia -- Military relations -- United States.
United States -- Military relations -- Asia.
Added Author West, Philip, 1938-
Levine, Steven I.
Hiltz, Jackie.
ISBN 0765602377 paperback
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