Curse on This Country : : The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan /

Curse on This Country : : The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan / / Danny Orbach.

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Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as "cattle to the slaughter." But, in fact, the Japanese Army had a long history as one of the most disobedient armies in the world. Officers repeatedly staged coups d&...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Orbach, Danny,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Names and Dates
  • Introduction
  • 1. Warriors of High Aspirations: The Origins of Military Insubordination, 1858–1868
  • Part I. AGE OF CHAOS: 1868–1878
  • 2. Jewel in the Palace: The New Political Order, 1868–1873
  • 3. “By Not Stopping”: Military Insubordination and the Taiwan Expedition, 1874
  • 4. Fatal Optimism: Rebels and Assassins in the 1870s
  • 5. Gold-Eating Monsters: Military Independence and the Prerogative of Supreme Command
  • 6. Three Puffs on a Cigarette: Miura Gorō and the Assassination of Queen Min
  • 7. Coup D’état in Three Acts: The Taishō Political Crisis, 1912–1913
  • Part III. INTO THE DARK VALLEY, 1928–1936
  • 8. The King of Manchuria: Kōmoto Daisaku and the Assassination of Zhang Zuolin, 1928
  • 9. Cherry Blossom: From Resistance to Rebellion, 1931
  • 10. Pure as Water: The Incident of February 1936 and the Limits of Military Insubordination
  • Conclusion: The Dreadful and the Trivial
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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