Sheldon Garon
Biographic Data
| ID | 247929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheldon Garon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheldon |
| FAMILY NAME | Garon |
| SIGNATURE | GARON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-0741-4424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Toward a global history of bombing in the Second World War: Taking Japan seriously
Operation Starvation, 1945: A Transnational History of Blockades and the Defeat of Japan
Going beyond the conventional focus on the British blockade of Germany in the First World War, this essay situates blockades in a broader transnational history of waging war on civil populations. From the early twentieth century through the Second World War, blockade strategies evolved as part of a global circulation of ideas and practices on how wars might be won by starving, bombing, and demoralizing the enemy's urban masses. The Allied blockad…
On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the United States Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in the Second World War
How did it become 'normal' to bomb civilians? Focusing on the aerial bombardment of China, Germany, Britain, and Japan in 1937-45, this essay spotlights the role of transnational learning in the construction and destruction of 'home fronts'. Belligerents vigorously studied each other's strategies to destroy the enemy's cities and 'morale', while investigating efforts to defend one's own home front by means of 'civilian defence'. The inclusion of …
Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882–1940) and Great Britain (1870–1914)
8. Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882–1940) and Great Britain (1870–1914) was published in States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies on page 264.
Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882–1940) and Great Britain (1870–1914)
Fashioning a Culture of Diligence and Thrift: Savings and Frugality Campaigns in Japan, 1900–1931
Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "m…
Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage
The growing field of transnational or global history spotlights connections among nations and empires. This essay suggests ways in which historians of modern Japan might contribute to transnational history, taking advantage of their Japanese subjects’ determined emulation of ideas and practices in other nations. Thinking transnationally about Japan not only challenges myths of Japanese exceptionalism but also enriches transnational history by goi…
A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki
17 Codex A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki Grassroots Fascism, Greater Asianism, and the Centrality of the Sino- Japanese War Ethan Mark I first encountered GrassrootsFascism in the context of a Japanese history graduate seminar at Columbia University way back in 1991. At the time, I was gearing up for a dissertation project on the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during W…
Defending Civilians against Aerial Bombardment: A Comparative/Transnational History of Japanese, German, and British Home Fronts, 1918-1945
This essay reveals the vital role of transnational learning in structuring air defense in Japan, Germany, and Britain in World War II, while comparing how each regime shaped the contours of home-front mobilization. In the decades between the two world wars, states increasingly recognized the new threat of aerial bombardment of cities, and they actively investigated other nations' efforts at "civilian defense" and "total war." Learning continued d…
Postwar Japan's National Salvation
The following is a chapter from my new book, Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves. Beyond Our Means tells the global story of how many states and societies have actively encouraged household saving from roughly 1800 to the present. To do so, they established an array of institutions aimed at attracting "small savers." These included savings banks, postal savings systems, school savings programs, and wartime and postwar savin…
National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (review)
Reviewed by: National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States Sheldon Garon (bio) National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States. By Christopher L. Hill. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 2008. xvi, 351 pages. $89.95, cloth; $24.95, paper. This is an extraordinary book. One of the hottest…
State and family in modern Japan: A Historical Perspective
Japanese often present their ‘family system’ as a timeless national tradition. Instead this article examines changes in Japanese family structure from the late nineteenth century to recent years, focusing on interrelationships between the Japanese managerial state and family. Specifically it charts (1) the state's role in establishing the household as the primary site of welfare provision and (2) the gradual shift from the patriarchal household t…
Roundtable Discussion of Richard J. Samuels's Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Richard Samuels's book Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan raises a number of important issues concerning political leadership and the role individual leaders can play in a nation's history. The book won the 2003 Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in International History and Politics, awarded by the International History and Politic…
From Meiji to Heisei: The State and Civil Society in Japan
"Civil society" may well be the Holy Grail of our time. Scholars and statesmen seek it with a fervor that borders on the spiritual. And recognizing it among the more mundane chalices has stymied many in their quest. For a historian of state-society relations like myself, the Charge of investigating civil society in Japan raises a thorny set of problems. Civil society has occupied an important place in modern Japan, I argue. Yet if we are to appre…
The State of Civil Society in Japan
For all the obstacles that remain, civil society is burgeoning in Japan, and the idea of civil society is at the core of the current debate about how to reinvigorate the country. This book gathers the insights of American and Japanese scholars from the fields of political science, sociology, social psychology, and history to investigate the nature of associational life and the public sphere in Japan. It goes beyond assessing the condition of civi…
Occupied Japan: Embracing Defeat orSurviving the Americans
John Dower is probably the best-known historian of Japan in this country. His previous book examined wartime racial attitudes held by Americans and Japanese toward each other.1 No other work on Japan has so influenced historians of the United States. Dower's current book, Embracing Defeat, stands as the most comprehensive treatment in English of the American-dominated Occupation of Japan (1945–1952). We learn not only of negotiations between Amer…
State and Society in Interwar Japan
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life
Luxury is the Enemy: Mobilizing Savings and Popularizing Thrift in Wartime Japan
Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations
Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life
Luxury is the Enemy: Mobilizing Savings and Popularizing Thrift in Wartime Japan
State and family in modern Japan: A Historical Perspective
Japanese often present their ‘family system’ as a timeless national tradition. Instead this article examines changes in Japanese family structure from the late nineteenth century to recent years, focusing on interrelationships between the Japanese managerial state and family. Specifically it charts (1) the state's role in establishing the household as the primary site of welfare provision and (2) the gradual shift from the patriarchal household t…
Women's Groups and the Japanese State: Contending Approaches to Political Integration, 1890-1945
Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations
There was a time, not so long ago, when the primary fault line in American studies of Japan lay not between "Japan-bashers" and "Japanapologists," but between those who presented the history of Japan in terms of an ongoing process of modernization and those who did not. During the 1970s, younger scholars of Japan attacked modernization theory with considerable passion (see Dower 1975), eliciting rather defensive responses from its practitioners. …
State and Religion in Imperial Japan, 1912-1945
The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan
Studies of twentieth-century Japanese politics have largely ignored the impressive continuities between the prewar and postwar periods. Most accounts of the Occupation emphasize external American initiatives while dealing with the established Japanese leadership in rather one-dimensional terms. This article focuses on a dynamic group of prewar Japanese bureaucrats who survived the Occupation purge to play a key role in the postwar government's co…
On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the United States Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in the Second World War
How did it become 'normal' to bomb civilians? Focusing on the aerial bombardment of China, Germany, Britain, and Japan in 1937-45, this essay spotlights the role of transnational learning in the construction and destruction of 'home fronts'. Belligerents vigorously studied each other's strategies to destroy the enemy's cities and 'morale', while investigating efforts to defend one's own home front by means of 'civilian defence'. The inclusion of …
Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage
The growing field of transnational or global history spotlights connections among nations and empires. This essay suggests ways in which historians of modern Japan might contribute to transnational history, taking advantage of their Japanese subjects’ determined emulation of ideas and practices in other nations. Thinking transnationally about Japan not only challenges myths of Japanese exceptionalism but also enriches transnational history by goi…
Operation Starvation, 1945: A Transnational History of Blockades and the Defeat of Japan
Going beyond the conventional focus on the British blockade of Germany in the First World War, this essay situates blockades in a broader transnational history of waging war on civil populations. From the early twentieth century through the Second World War, blockade strategies evolved as part of a global circulation of ideas and practices on how wars might be won by starving, bombing, and demoralizing the enemy's urban masses. The Allied blockad…
Defending Civilians against Aerial Bombardment: A Comparative/Transnational History of Japanese, German, and British Home Fronts, 1918-1945
This essay reveals the vital role of transnational learning in structuring air defense in Japan, Germany, and Britain in World War II, while comparing how each regime shaped the contours of home-front mobilization. In the decades between the two world wars, states increasingly recognized the new threat of aerial bombardment of cities, and they actively investigated other nations' efforts at "civilian defense" and "total war." Learning continued d…
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
Toward a History of Twentieth-Century Japan
Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960
The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan
Studies of twentieth-century Japanese politics have largely ignored the impressive continuities between the prewar and postwar periods. Most accounts of the Occupation emphasize external American initiatives while dealing with the established Japanese leadership in rather one-dimensional terms. This article focuses on a dynamic group of prewar Japanese bureaucrats who survived the Occupation purge to play a key role in the postwar government's co…
The Early Japanese Labor Movement
State and Religion in Imperial Japan, 1912-1945
The State and Labor in Modern Japan
In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of suppression and mutual antagonism
Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960
The State and Labor in Modern Japan
The State and Labor in Modern Japan
The State and Labor in Modern Japan
The State and Labor in Modern Japan
Toward a History of Twentieth-Century Japan
Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan
The World's Oldest Debate? Prostitution and the State in Imperial Japan, 1900-1945
Women's Groups and the Japanese State: Contending Approaches to Political Integration, 1890-1945
Janus-Faced Justice: Political Criminals in Imperial Japan
Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations
There was a time, not so long ago, when the primary fault line in American studies of Japan lay not between "Japan-bashers" and "Japanapologists," but between those who presented the history of Japan in terms of an ongoing process of modernization and those who did not. During the 1970s, younger scholars of Japan attacked modernization theory with considerable passion (see Dower 1975), eliciting rather defensive responses from its practitioners. …
Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays
The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations
Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
State and Society in Interwar Japan
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life
Luxury is the Enemy: Mobilizing Savings and Popularizing Thrift in Wartime Japan
Occupied Japan: Embracing Defeat orSurviving the Americans
John Dower is probably the best-known historian of Japan in this country. His previous book examined wartime racial attitudes held by Americans and Japanese toward each other.1 No other work on Japan has so influenced historians of the United States. Dower's current book, Embracing Defeat, stands as the most comprehensive treatment in English of the American-dominated Occupation of Japan (1945–1952). We learn not only of negotiations between Amer…
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