Frederick R Dickinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 284489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick R Dickinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick R |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickinson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKINSON F R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1138-9827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: Global Entanglements and Japan, China, and Korea, 1914–1919
Rethinking Modern Constitutionalism through the Prism of Meiji Japan
Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō, written by Michael J. Green
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine
Reviewed by: The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine Frederick R. Dickinson The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War. By S. C. M. Paine. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Hardcover (220 pages), £59.99/$74.99; softcover (218 pages), £19.99/$24.99. One of only a handful of military historians currently publishing on Japan in English, Sarah Paine des…
M ax M. W ard . Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan
Max M. Ward’s Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan examines a fascinating early twentieth-century experiment in criminal justice and social reform. Although behind their Western European and American counterparts, by 1900, Japanese statesmen, legislators, and intellectuals promoted political, legal, and social reform to moderate the adverse effects of late nineteenth-century industrial development. Ward describes how, from th…
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan’s Meiji Restoration in World History
More than a ‘moment: Woodrow Wilson and the foundations of twentieth century Japan
Woodrow Wilson's name remains forever entwined with the Paris Peace Conference and efforts to transform geopolitics after 1918. Despite recent emphases on the power of this so-called ‘Wilsonian Moment,’ initiatives by the American president remain controversial, and his principal global legacy has come to be defined as the rise of nationalism in the developing world. In the historiography of modern Japan, Wilson and the Paris Conference have long…
À l’aube d’un siècle Pacifique: Les États-Unis et le Japon durant la Première Guerre mondiale
Historians of US-Japan relations typically describe the First World War as an era of growing bilateral tensions that ultimately laid the foundation for the Pacific War. But the inward turn of European power between 1914 and 1918 helped deepen US-Japan economic ties. And Japan’s active participation in the new American-led peace after 1918 intensified bilateral political cooperation through the 1920s. From the vantage point of 1941, the First Worl…
The First World War, Japan, and a Global Century
The date of 22 January 1920 marked a momentous occasion for Japan’s lawmakers. It was the first day of deliberations following a month of winter recess, when the forty-second Imperial Diet met to legislate a new world. To a packed gallery and with all members of the diet in attendance, the Upper House assembled at 10.00 a.m. to issue a celebratory proclamation. ‘The Great War that dragged on for five years’, Japan’s peers declared, ‘was an enormo…
The Japanese Empire
For Japan, the First World War was a golden opportunity to expand both formal and informal empire in the Asia/Pacific region. Japanese troops occupied China’s Shandong province (1914 – 1922) and Siberia (1918 – 1922), the Japanese navy assumed control of German Micronesia (from 1914) and the “Twenty-One Demands” granted Tokyo extensive political and economic privileges throughout China (June 1915). Like many of its allies, Japan in 1919 struggled…
Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945
As Yukiko Koshiro appropriately notes at the outset of her striking new study, the Asia-Pacific component of World War II comes with many labels, each associated with particular audiences. ‘Pacific War’ is the preferred term for most Americans, who focus on the fight between Japanese and American forces in the Pacific. ‘Fifteen Years’ War’ is used by Japanese Marxists to describe a much longer series of battles begun on the Asian continent in 193…
Jung-Sun N. Han. An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937
Since Oguma Eiji's award-winning Tanitsu minzoku shinwa no kigen: “Nihonjin” no jigazo no keifu (The Myth of the Homogeneous Nation) (1995), empire has preoccupied historians of modern Japan. Following Oguma's forceful claim that Japanese from the late nineteenth century considered themselves not just national subjects, but also members of an expanding multiethnic empire, Japan specialists have rushed to frame their investigations with empire. We…
Toward a Global Perspective of the Great War: Japan and the Foundations of a Twentieth-Century World
Frederick R. Dickinson is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 (Harvard University Asia Center, 1999); Taisho tennō (Taisho Emperor) (Mineruva shobō, 2009); and World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is currently working on a global history of modern Ja…
World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930
Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. Taking World War I as his anchor, Dickinson examine…
Biohazard: "Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National "Forgetfulness
Fueled by perennial controversies over official Japanese regulation of textbooks, Western media and academics thrive on claims of a peculiar Japanese "forgetfulness" of wartime atrocities. But the postwar record of Japanese discussions of wartime biological warfare experiments reveals an impressive level of public exposure that, in some ways, surpasses American discussions of its own wartime past. To stress Japanese "forgetfulness" tells only hal…
Fighting Culture with Culture: Fighting Culture with Culture
When John King Fairbank in 1987 criticized American attitudes toward China as “culture bound,” he hinted to one of the greatest challenges of analyzing foreign lands.1 How do we prevent such investigations from simply reifying our own national myths? The problem can be acute for specialists of American foreign policy, who investigate developments across borders often without the linguistic competence of area specialists who burrow deeply into for…
Peter Berton. Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-1917: From Enemies to Allies
Together with renowned contemporaries Hilary Conroy, Marius Jansen, and Otis Cary, Peter Berton represents an earlier era of scholarship on Japan, when association with the archipelago promised rich rewards and Japan-related research touched upon the most important issues of life and death. Relocating from Poland to Harbin in his infancy, Berton, like Cary, grew up in the Japanese Empire. As with Conroy and Jansen, the Pacific War ignited a passi…
Globalizing ConflictSpace: The View from East Asia
Developments in East Asia strengthen the claims of “ConflictSpace.” The contrast between general war in 1914 and the limited Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 may be explained, in large part, by the higher degree of connectivity in 1914. The difference between Japan's swift declaration of war in 1914 and hesitation by China and the United States may, likewise, be attributed to Japan's higher connectivity. A host of independent variables, such as pol…
Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan Frederick R. Dickinson (bio) Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006. xxiv, 370 pages. $49.95. Japan specialists looking for a potent lesson in modern history need look no further than Lever of Empire. With his focus alone, …
Know Your Ally Japan
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China
Crumbling pillars of the U.S.-Japan security alliance
Dai ichiji sekai taisen to Nihon kaigun-gaiko to gunji to no rensetsu (World War I and the Imperial Japanese Navy-The Diplomacy in Concert with the Military Actions)
Journal Article Dai ichiji sekai taisen to Nihon kaigun—gaiko to gunji to no rensetsu (World War I and the Imperial Japanese Navy—The diplomacy in concert with the military actions). By Yoichi Hirama. (Tokyo: Keio Gijuku Daigaku, 1998. vi, 330 pp. ¥4,000, ISBN 4-7664-0687-7.) In Japanese Get access Frederick R. Dickinson Frederick R. Dickinson University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919
For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself on imperial Germany since the nineteenth century, it had perhaps been imitating the wrong national example. Japanese policy debates during World War I, particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion, thus …
War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919
For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself on imperial Germany since the nineteenth century, it had perhaps been imitating the wrong national example. Japanese policy debates during World War I, particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion, thus …
More than a ‘moment: Woodrow Wilson and the foundations of twentieth century Japan
Woodrow Wilson's name remains forever entwined with the Paris Peace Conference and efforts to transform geopolitics after 1918. Despite recent emphases on the power of this so-called ‘Wilsonian Moment,’ initiatives by the American president remain controversial, and his principal global legacy has come to be defined as the rise of nationalism in the developing world. In the historiography of modern Japan, Wilson and the Paris Conference have long…
War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919
For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself on imperial Germany since the nineteenth century, it had perhaps been imitating the wrong national example. Japanese policy debates during World War I, particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion, thus …
Crumbling pillars of the U.S.-Japan security alliance
Dai ichiji sekai taisen to Nihon kaigun-gaiko to gunji to no rensetsu (World War I and the Imperial Japanese Navy-The Diplomacy in Concert with the Military Actions)
Journal Article Dai ichiji sekai taisen to Nihon kaigun—gaiko to gunji to no rensetsu (World War I and the Imperial Japanese Navy—The diplomacy in concert with the military actions). By Yoichi Hirama. (Tokyo: Keio Gijuku Daigaku, 1998. vi, 330 pp. ¥4,000, ISBN 4-7664-0687-7.) In Japanese Get access Frederick R. Dickinson Frederick R. Dickinson University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Know Your Ally Japan
Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan Frederick R. Dickinson (bio) Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006. xxiv, 370 pages. $49.95. Japan specialists looking for a potent lesson in modern history need look no further than Lever of Empire. With his focus alone, …
Globalizing ConflictSpace: The View from East Asia
Developments in East Asia strengthen the claims of “ConflictSpace.” The contrast between general war in 1914 and the limited Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 may be explained, in large part, by the higher degree of connectivity in 1914. The difference between Japan's swift declaration of war in 1914 and hesitation by China and the United States may, likewise, be attributed to Japan's higher connectivity. A host of independent variables, such as pol…
Fighting Culture with Culture: Fighting Culture with Culture
When John King Fairbank in 1987 criticized American attitudes toward China as “culture bound,” he hinted to one of the greatest challenges of analyzing foreign lands.1 How do we prevent such investigations from simply reifying our own national myths? The problem can be acute for specialists of American foreign policy, who investigate developments across borders often without the linguistic competence of area specialists who burrow deeply into for…
Peter Berton. Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-1917: From Enemies to Allies
Together with renowned contemporaries Hilary Conroy, Marius Jansen, and Otis Cary, Peter Berton represents an earlier era of scholarship on Japan, when association with the archipelago promised rich rewards and Japan-related research touched upon the most important issues of life and death. Relocating from Poland to Harbin in his infancy, Berton, like Cary, grew up in the Japanese Empire. As with Conroy and Jansen, the Pacific War ignited a passi…
World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930
Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. Taking World War I as his anchor, Dickinson examine…
Biohazard: "Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National "Forgetfulness
Fueled by perennial controversies over official Japanese regulation of textbooks, Western media and academics thrive on claims of a peculiar Japanese "forgetfulness" of wartime atrocities. But the postwar record of Japanese discussions of wartime biological warfare experiments reveals an impressive level of public exposure that, in some ways, surpasses American discussions of its own wartime past. To stress Japanese "forgetfulness" tells only hal…
The Japanese Empire
For Japan, the First World War was a golden opportunity to expand both formal and informal empire in the Asia/Pacific region. Japanese troops occupied China’s Shandong province (1914 – 1922) and Siberia (1918 – 1922), the Japanese navy assumed control of German Micronesia (from 1914) and the “Twenty-One Demands” granted Tokyo extensive political and economic privileges throughout China (June 1915). Like many of its allies, Japan in 1919 struggled…
Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945
As Yukiko Koshiro appropriately notes at the outset of her striking new study, the Asia-Pacific component of World War II comes with many labels, each associated with particular audiences. ‘Pacific War’ is the preferred term for most Americans, who focus on the fight between Japanese and American forces in the Pacific. ‘Fifteen Years’ War’ is used by Japanese Marxists to describe a much longer series of battles begun on the Asian continent in 193…
Jung-Sun N. Han. An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937
Since Oguma Eiji's award-winning Tanitsu minzoku shinwa no kigen: “Nihonjin” no jigazo no keifu (The Myth of the Homogeneous Nation) (1995), empire has preoccupied historians of modern Japan. Following Oguma's forceful claim that Japanese from the late nineteenth century considered themselves not just national subjects, but also members of an expanding multiethnic empire, Japan specialists have rushed to frame their investigations with empire. We…
Toward a Global Perspective of the Great War: Japan and the Foundations of a Twentieth-Century World
Frederick R. Dickinson is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 (Harvard University Asia Center, 1999); Taisho tennō (Taisho Emperor) (Mineruva shobō, 2009); and World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is currently working on a global history of modern Ja…
The First World War, Japan, and a Global Century
The date of 22 January 1920 marked a momentous occasion for Japan’s lawmakers. It was the first day of deliberations following a month of winter recess, when the forty-second Imperial Diet met to legislate a new world. To a packed gallery and with all members of the diet in attendance, the Upper House assembled at 10.00 a.m. to issue a celebratory proclamation. ‘The Great War that dragged on for five years’, Japan’s peers declared, ‘was an enormo…
À l’aube d’un siècle Pacifique: Les États-Unis et le Japon durant la Première Guerre mondiale
Historians of US-Japan relations typically describe the First World War as an era of growing bilateral tensions that ultimately laid the foundation for the Pacific War. But the inward turn of European power between 1914 and 1918 helped deepen US-Japan economic ties. And Japan’s active participation in the new American-led peace after 1918 intensified bilateral political cooperation through the 1920s. From the vantage point of 1941, the First Worl…
More than a ‘moment: Woodrow Wilson and the foundations of twentieth century Japan
Woodrow Wilson's name remains forever entwined with the Paris Peace Conference and efforts to transform geopolitics after 1918. Despite recent emphases on the power of this so-called ‘Wilsonian Moment,’ initiatives by the American president remain controversial, and his principal global legacy has come to be defined as the rise of nationalism in the developing world. In the historiography of modern Japan, Wilson and the Paris Conference have long…
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan’s Meiji Restoration in World History
M ax M. W ard . Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan
Max M. Ward’s Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan examines a fascinating early twentieth-century experiment in criminal justice and social reform. Although behind their Western European and American counterparts, by 1900, Japanese statesmen, legislators, and intellectuals promoted political, legal, and social reform to moderate the adverse effects of late nineteenth-century industrial development. Ward describes how, from th…
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine
Reviewed by: The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine Frederick R. Dickinson The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War. By S. C. M. Paine. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Hardcover (220 pages), £59.99/$74.99; softcover (218 pages), £19.99/$24.99. One of only a handful of military historians currently publishing on Japan in English, Sarah Paine des…
Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō, written by Michael J. Green
The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: Global Entanglements and Japan, China, and Korea, 1914–1919
Rethinking Modern Constitutionalism through the Prism of Meiji Japan
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