The Standard Vacuum Oil Company And United States East Asian Policy 1933 1941

Author : Irvine H. Anderson Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400867004

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The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and United States East Asian Policy, 1933-1941 by Irvine H. Anderson Jr. Pdf

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 : Emily Rosenberg
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429952255

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Spreading the American Dream by Emily Rosenberg Pdf

In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global.

Author : Jerry K. Sweeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429710506

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A Handbook Of American Diplomacy by Jerry K. Sweeney Pdf

This work is concerned with the diplomatic history of the United States since the first settlers set foot on the shores of the continent. It is a handbook to serve a general public interested in American diplomacy as well as students engaged in course work in that area.

Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136156465

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Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour by Antony Best Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471104756

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The Prize by Daniel Yergin Pdf

The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.

Author : Howard Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742558250

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Crucible of Power by Howard Jones Pdf

In this updated edition of Crucible of Power, Howard Jones draws on his remarkable breadth as a historian of U.S. foreign relations to produce a distinguished survey of America's growth from an emerging power in the 1890s to its present day position of global preeminence. Comprehensive, tempered, and highly accessible, Jones demonstrates the complexities facing U.S. policy makers and the limitations on their actions.

Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 0415111714

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Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor by Antony Best Pdf

An authoritative account of British efforts to avert a conflict with Japan. Using recently released material the author shows how the need to appease American opinion hamstrung Britain's ability to achieve an understanding with Japan.

Author : Michael A. Barnhart
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801468469

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Japan Prepares for Total War by Michael A. Barnhart Pdf

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security, drawing on a wide array of Japanese and American sources. Barnhart focuses on the critical years from 1938 to 1941 as he investigates the development of Japan's drive for national economic self-sufficiency and independence and the way in which this drive shaped its internal and external policies. He also explores American economic pressure on Tokyo and assesses its impact on Japan's foreign policy and domestic economy. He concludes that Japan's internal political dynamics, especially the bitter rivalry between its army and navy, played a far greater role in propelling the nation into war with the United States than did its economic condition or even pressure from Washington. Japan Prepares for Total War sheds new light on prewar Japan and confirms the opinions of those in Washington who advocated economic pressure against Japan.

Author : Richard B. Frank
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324002116

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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank Pdf

“A sweeping epic.… Promises to do for the war in the Pacific what Rick Atkinson did for Europe.” —James M. Scott, author of Rampage In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies. In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary evidence to tell an epic story that gave birth to the world we live in now.

Author : Katherine A.S. Sibley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118834473

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A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover by Katherine A.S. Sibley Pdf

With the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essays demonstrate how academics then and now have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. This is the first historiographical treatment of a long-neglected period, ranging from early treatments to the most recent scholarship Features review essays on the era, including the legacy of progressivism in an age of “normalcy”, the history of American foreign relations after World War I, and race relations in the 1920s, as well as coverage of the three presidential elections and a thorough treatment of the causes and consequences of the Great Depression An introduction by the editor provides an overview of the issues, background and historical problems of the time, and the personalities at play

Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195357059

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 by Robert Dallek Pdf

Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor? Did Roosevelt "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin and the U.S.S.R. at Yalta? And, most significantly, did Roosevelt abandon Europe's Jews to the Holocaust, making no direct effort to aid them? In a new Afterword to his definitive history, Dallek vigorously and brilliantly defends Roosevelt's policy. He emphasizes how Roosevelt operated as a master politician in maintaining a national consensus for his foreign policy throughout his presidency and how he brilliantly achieved his policy and military goals.

Author : David O. Whitten,Bessie E. Whitten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313368196

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Manufacturing by David O. Whitten,Bessie E. Whitten Pdf

Overall, this first volume in the series should render business research in manufacturing a good deal easier by bringing together insightful industry histories and detailed critical bibliographies. This series has much to recommend it. Future volumes will be eagerly awaited. Reference Books Bulletin This historical and bibliographical reference work is the first volume of Greenwood Press's Handbook of American Business History, a series intended to supplement current bibliographic materials pertaining to business history. Devoted to manufacturing, this work uses the Enterprise Standard Industrial Classification (ESIC) to divide the subject into distinct segments, from which contributors have developed histories and bibliographies of the different types of manufacturing. Though authors were given sets of guidelines to follow, they were also allowed the flexibility to work in a format that best suited the material. Each contribution in this volume contains three important elements: a concise history of the manufacturing sector, a bibliographic essay, and a bibliography. Some contributions appear in three distinct parts, while others are combined into one or two segments; all build on currently available material for students and scholars doing research on business and industry. The contributors, who include business, economic, and social historians, as well as engineers and lawyers, have covered such topics as bakery products, industrial chemicals and synthetics, engines and turbines, and household appliances. Also included are an introductory essay that covers general works and a comprehensive index. This book should be a useful tool for courses in business and industry, and a valuable resource for college, university, and public libraries.

Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0719019141

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Japanese History & Culture from Ancient to Modern Times by John W. Dower Pdf

Author : Laura Elizabeth Hein
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674326806

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Fueling Growth by Laura Elizabeth Hein Pdf

Hein (Japanese history, Northwestern U.) examines post-WWII economic development in Japan through the prism of the energy sector. Energy, always a key problem for Japan, is an appropriate angle from which to view the changing economy and the development of economic policy during the Occupation years and after. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521457556

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New Deals by Colin Gordon Pdf

This book, an economic history of the interwar era, is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years.