John W. Dower





John W. Dower

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John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online “Visualizing Cultures” project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.


Average rating: 4.03 · 1,047 ratings · 128 reviews · 16 distinct works
Embracing Defeat: Japan in ...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
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War Without Mercy: Race and...
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harb...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Japan in War and Peace: Sel...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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Empire and Aftermath: Yoshi...
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The Elements of Japanese De...
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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of...
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