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Hiroshima and the historians: debating America's most controversial decision

Kenneth B. Pyle
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Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024
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Summary:
The decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been considered the most important - and perhaps most controversial - event in twentieth-century history. It ushered in many of the major developments of our time: the end of World War II, the beginning of the atomic age, the establishment of the American world order, and the start of the Cold War arms race. Kenneth B. Pyle illuminates both the complexities of the event itself and the debates among historians that continue today, as they wrestle with the moral issues of the decision, its necessity and its alternatives. While producing no final resolution to the controversy, historians have nevertheless advanced and deepened our understanding of this event. This accessible and thought-provoking analysis is a case study in the intricate nature of the historian's craft and a reminder of the value of historians in a free society.
Table of Contents:
  • The historian's craft
  • The Hiroshima decision
  • Participants and their first draft of history
  • The revisionists
  • Historians and moral judgments
  • Military historians
  • Gauging Japanese responsibility
  • The wider perspective
  • Controversy as a way of life.
Author/Creator:
Pyle, Kenneth B. , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Hiroshima and the historians: debating America's most controversial decision [by Pyle, K.B.]
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Hiroshima and the historians [by Pyle, K.B.] (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024 — ISBN 1009477455; OCLC Number 1419059961)
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 — Historiography
Atomic bomb — United States — History
History — Philosophy
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) — History — Bombardment, 1945 — Historiography
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) — History — Bombardment, 1945 — Historiography
World War (1939-1945)
Bombardment of Nagasaki-shi (Nagasaki-shi, Japan : 1945)
Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Hiroshima-shi, Japan : 1945)
1939-1945
History
Historiography
Atomic bomb
Japan — Nagasaki-shi
United States
Japan — Hiroshima-shi
Japan
Genres:
History
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2024).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Digital Characteristics:
text file
Call Numbers:
D767.25.H6 P95 2024eb
ISBNs:
9781009477482 (electronic book)
100947748X (electronic book)
9781009477451 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781009477444 (paperback) [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
1428420677