Centennial perspectives / edited by Rotem Kowner.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kowner, Rotem.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 ; v. 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Centennial perspectives.; Regional issues and diplomacy, economics and image.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282089080; 9786612089084; 9004213430
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Rotem Kowner.

Despite the growing number of publications on the Russo-Japanese War, an abundance of questions and issues related to this topic remain unsolved, or call for a reexamination. This 30-chapter volume, the first in the two-volume project Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, provides a comprehensive reexamination of the origins of the conflict, the various dimensions of the nineteen-month conflagration, the legacy of the war, and its place in the history of the twentieth century. Such an enterprise is not only timely but unique. It has benefited from a multinational team of thirty-two scholars from twelve nations representing a broad disciplinary background. The majority of them focus on topics never researched before and without exception provide a novel and critical view of the war. This reexamination is, of course, facilitated by a century-long perspective as well as an impressive assortment of primary and secondary sources, many of them unexplored and, in a number of cases, unavailable earlier.