The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere av Jeremy A. Yellen

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<p>"<i><b>The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere</b></i> offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan''s attempt to usher in a new order in Asia during World War II."<br/>? <i>Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review</i></p><p><b>In </b><b><i>The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere</i></b><b>, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan''s "total empire" met the total war of World War II.</b> He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes competing, sometimes complementary, and always intertwined visions—one from Japan, the other from Burma and the Philippines.</p><p>Yellen argues that, from 1940 to 1945, the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere epitomized two concurrent wars for Asia''s future: the first was for a new type of empire in Asia, and the second was a political war, waged by nationa