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John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction , [2] the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction , [3] the Bancroft Prize , the Los Angeles Times Book Prize , the Mark Lynton ...
John Dower, emeritus professor of Japanese history, retired from the History faculty in 2010 but remains active in MIT’s online “Visualizing Cultures” project, a pioneering website he co-founded in 2002 that breaks new ground in the scholarly use of visual materials to reexamine the experience of Japan and China in the modern world.
Throwing Off Asia I by John W. Dower. What does it mean to speak of people, cultures, or nations responding to “the challenge of the Western world”? What does “Westernization” involve in concrete practice?
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John W. Dower. Japanese History. MIT Center for International Studies. 617-253-4965. John W. Dower was born in 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island. He received his B.A. in American Studies from Amherst College and his Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard.
JOHN W. DOWER is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty of history in the early 1990s and retired in 2010. Earlier academic appointments include the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1971-1985) and University of California at San Diego (1986-1991).
Mar 28, 2012 · In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful,...
Jun 6, 2024 · Professor John W. Dower was the former Ford International Professor of History, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also held teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and University of California, San Diego.
