In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans
the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl
Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the
International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major
targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military
outposts in the Pacific: Kota Bharu on the northeast coast of
Malaya (now Malaysia); Thailand, the one site not claimed by a
western power; Pearl Harbor, O’ahu; Singapore, key to the defense
of Britain’s Asian empire; Guam, the only island in the Mariana
chain not controlled by Japan; Wake Island; Hong Kong; and the
Philippines. Told from multiple perspectives, the stories of these
attacks reveal the arc of imperialism, colonialism, and burgeoning
nationalism in the Pacific world. In Beyond Pearl Harbor renowned
scholars hailing from four continents and representing six nations
reinterpret the meaning of the coordinated, and devastating,
attacks of December 7/8, 1941. Working from a variety of angles,
they revise and expand, to an unprecedented Extent, what we
understand about these events—in particular, how Japan’s
overwhelming, if short-lived, victories contributed to emerging
solidarities and nationalist identities within and across Pacific
societies. In their essays we see how various elite actors
incorporated the attacks into new regimes of knowledge and
expertise that challenged and displaced existing hierarchies.
Extending far beyond Pearl Harbor, the events of December 1941, as
we see in this volume, are part of a story of clashing empires and
anti-colonial visions—a story whose outcome, even now, remains to
be seen.
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