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Film, Video Embracing Defeat in the Colonies: The Allies & the Dismantling of the Japanese Empire After World War II

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Title

  • Embracing Defeat in the Colonies: The Allies & the Dismantling of the Japanese Empire After World War II

Summary

  • One of the distinctive aspects of the end of the Japanese empire in 1945 is the intersection of defeat, foreign occupation and decolonization. After defeating Japan's military, the Allies occupied all of its colonies as well as the home islands, inserting themselves between the colonizers and the colonized at a critical moment in the decolonization process. They oversaw the end of empire, including the handover of political power, redrawing of borders and transfer of newly displaced populations. Looking at the end of Japanese rule in Korea and the South Seas mandate, Lori Watt examines how Japanese military defeat complicated, and also simplified, the dismantling of the empire.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-07-24.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  War, Military

Notes

  • -  Classification: Auxiliary Sciences of History.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Military Science.
  • -  Classification: Naval Science.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Lori Watt.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-07-24.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688926

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Embracing Defeat in the Colonies: The Allies & the Dismantling of the Japanese Empire After World War II. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-24, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688926/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2012) Embracing Defeat in the Colonies: The Allies & the Dismantling of the Japanese Empire After World War II. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-24. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688926/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Embracing Defeat in the Colonies: The Allies & the Dismantling of the Japanese Empire After World War II. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-24, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688926/>.