M G Sheftall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5052305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M G Sheftall |
| GIVEN NAMES | M G |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheftall |
| SIGNATURE | SHEFTALL M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mythologising the Dominion Fighting Man
A stereotypical image of the nation's First World War soldiers—and a conventional understanding of their war experience and its meaning—is not a concept unique to the British Empire's former Pacific Dominions, but is also promulgated in other parts of the Empire. During the First World War and interwar period, Canada also saw the emergence of a ‘Myth of the Soldier’ that paralleled the Anzac legend in many ways. This article focuses on some of th…
Japan's Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu
M.G. Sheftall, Professor of Modern Japanese History at Shizuoka University and author of Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (Penguin 2005), was in Honolulu, Hawaii, aboard the battleship USS Missouri (site of the Japanese surrender in World War II) speaking at the dedication of a temporary exhibition of the Tokkō Kamikaze suicide pilots on April 10 and 11, 2015
Kamikaze Diaries
In 2002, anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney attracted well-deserved attention from the academy with Kamikazes, Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (hereafter KCBN), a semiotic study of Japan's kamikaze suicide attack subculture in the closing months of the Asia–Pacific War. Ohnuki-Tierney is one of the few scholars of her stature on either side of the Pacific (or for that matter anywhere else) t…
Mythologising the Dominion Fighting Man
A stereotypical image of the nation's First World War soldiers—and a conventional understanding of their war experience and its meaning—is not a concept unique to the British Empire's former Pacific Dominions, but is also promulgated in other parts of the Empire. During the First World War and interwar period, Canada also saw the emergence of a ‘Myth of the Soldier’ that paralleled the Anzac legend in many ways. This article focuses on some of th…
Kamikaze Diaries
In 2002, anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney attracted well-deserved attention from the academy with Kamikazes, Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (hereafter KCBN), a semiotic study of Japan's kamikaze suicide attack subculture in the closing months of the Asia–Pacific War. Ohnuki-Tierney is one of the few scholars of her stature on either side of the Pacific (or for that matter anywhere else) t…
Mythologising the Dominion Fighting Man
A stereotypical image of the nation's First World War soldiers—and a conventional understanding of their war experience and its meaning—is not a concept unique to the British Empire's former Pacific Dominions, but is also promulgated in other parts of the Empire. During the First World War and interwar period, Canada also saw the emergence of a ‘Myth of the Soldier’ that paralleled the Anzac legend in many ways. This article focuses on some of th…
Japan's Kamikaze Suicide Pilots Exhibit at the USS Missouri in Honolulu
M.G. Sheftall, Professor of Modern Japanese History at Shizuoka University and author of Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (Penguin 2005), was in Honolulu, Hawaii, aboard the battleship USS Missouri (site of the Japanese surrender in World War II) speaking at the dedication of a temporary exhibition of the Tokkō Kamikaze suicide pilots on April 10 and 11, 2015
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aeronautics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)