The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective : : World War Zero, Volume I / / edited by John Steinberg, Bruce Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, Shinji Yokote.

• Superior document: History of Warfare ; 29
• TeilnehmendeR: Wolff, David,; Menning, Bruce,; Yokote, Shinji,; Steinberg, John,; Oye, David Schimmelpenninck van der,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare ; 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (739 p.)
• Notes: Vol. 2 edited by David Wolff. [et al.].

This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first gl...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of Maps and Illustrations
• Conventions
• Introduction
• John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, Shinji Yokote
• Part I In the Shadow of War
• Chapter One Japanese Strategy, Geopolitics and the Origins of the War, 1792-1895
• Michael Auslin
• Chapter Two The Immediate Origins of the War
• David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
• Chapter Three Stretching out to the Yalu: A Contested Frontier, 1900-1903
• Ian Nish
• Chapter Four The Bezobrazovtsy
• Igor Lukoianov
• Chapter Five Crimea Redux? On the Origins of the War
• David Goldfrank
• Part II War on Land and Sea
• Chapter Six The Operational Overview
• John W. Steinberg
• Chapter Seven Neither Mahan nor Moltke: Strategy in the War
• Bruce W. Menning
• Chapter Eight The Russian Army's Fatal Flaws
• Oleg Airapetov
• Chapter Nine Human Bullets, General Nogi, and the Myth of Port Arthur
• Y. Tak Matsusaka
• Chapter Ten The Russian Far Eastern Squadron's Operational Plans
• Nicholas Papastratigakis with Dominic Lieven
• Chapter Eleven The Russian Navy at War
• Pertti Luntinen
• Chapter Twelve Japanese Subversion in the Russian Empire
• Antti Kujala
• Chapter Thirteen Russian Military Intelligence
• Evgenii Sergeev
• Chapter Fourteen Intelligence Intermediaries: The Competition for Chinese Spies
• David Wolff
• Illustrations
• Part III The Home Front
• Chapter Fifteen The Specter of Mutinous Reserves: How the War Produced the October Manifesto
• John Bushnell
• Chapter Sixteen The Far East in the Eyes of the Russian Intelligentsia
• Paul Bushkovitch
• Chapter Seventeen Love Thine Enemy: Japanese Perceptions of Russia
• Naoko Shimazu
• Chapter Eighteen Battling Blocks: Representations of the War in Japanese Woodblock Art
• James Ulak
• Chapter Nineteen Russian Representations of the Japanese Enemy
• Richard Stites
• Chapter Twenty Images of the Foe in the Russian Satirical Press
• Tatiana Filippova
• Chapter Twenty-One The War in the Russian Literary Imagination
• Barry Scherr
• Part IV The Impact
• Chapter Twenty-Two Russian War Financing
• Boris Ananich
• Chapter Twenty-Three Japan's Other Victory: Overseas Financing of the War
• Ed Miller
• Chapter Twenty-Four The Kittery Peace
• Norman Saul
• Chapter Twenty-Five The War in Russian Historical Memory
• Dmitrii Oleinikov
• Chapter Twenty-Six Commemorating the War in Post-Versailles Japan
• Frederick Dickinson
• Chapter Twenty-Seven Tsushima's Echoes: Asian Defeat and Tsarist Foreign Policy
• David McDonald
• Chapter Twenty-Eight Interservice Rivalry and Politics in Post-War Japan
• Charles Schencking
• Chapter Twenty-Nine "That Vital Spark:" Japanese Patriotism in Russian Military Perspective
• Don Wright
• Chapter Thirty "Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!" The War and the Rise of Nationalism in British Egypt and India
• Steven Marks
• Chapter Thirty-One Inspiration for Nationalist Aspirations? Southeast Asia and Japan's Victory
• Paul Rodell
• Maps
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.