{"id":29752,"date":"2019-04-10T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=29752"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:17:44","slug":"prof-sheldon-garon-department-of-history-princeton-university-on-the-transnational-destruction-of-cities-what-japan-and-the-u-s-learned-from-the-bombing-of-britain-germany-and-china","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/veranstaltung\/prof-sheldon-garon-department-of-history-princeton-university-on-the-transnational-destruction-of-cities-what-japan-and-the-u-s-learned-from-the-bombing-of-britain-germany-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Sheldon Garon (Department of History, Princeton University), &#8220;On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. learned from the Bombing of Britain, Germany, and China&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did it become \u201cnormal\u201d to bomb cities and civilians?\u00a0 Focusing on the aerial bombardment of China, Britain, Germany, and Japan in 1937-45, Garon spotlights the role of transnational learning in the construction of the \u201chome front\u201d among all the belligerents.\u00a0 World War II was a global experience, yet histories of the home front remain confined to individual nations.\u00a0 In reality, not only did the warring states study each other\u2019s strategies to destroy the enemy\u2019s home front and \u201ccivilian morale,\u201d they also investigated others\u2019 efforts to defend one\u2019s own home front by means of \u201ccivilian defense.\u201d\u00a0 In this transnational world of knowledge-gathering, Japan emerged as a central player.\u00a0 But it was Japan\u2019s fate to suffer the war\u2019s most lethal firebombing, based on what the Allies had learned from bombing European cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHELDON GARON<\/strong> is Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University.\u00a0 A specialist in modern Japanese history, he also writes transnational history that charts the flow of ideas and institutions between Asia, Europe, and the United States\u2014notably Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves (2012) and \u201cTransnational History and Japan\u2019s \u2018Comparative Advantage,\u2019\u201d Journal of Japanese Studies (Winter 2017).\u00a0 His current project is a transnational history of \u201chome fronts\u201d in Japan, Germany, and Britain in World War II, focusing on aerial bombardment, food insecurity, and civilian \u201cmorale.\u201d\u00a0 Previous publications include Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997) and The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987), and he coedited The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did it become \u201cnormal\u201d to bomb cities and civilians?\u00a0 Focusing on the aerial bombardment of China, Britain, Germany, and Japan in 1937-45, Garon spotlights the role of transnational learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[149],"class_list":["post-29752","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-akademische-veranstaltungen-zh-hans","cat_akademische-veranstaltungen-zh-hans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/29752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/29752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29800,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/29752\/revisions\/29800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29752"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aki-goettingen.de\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=29752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}