Mark R. Peattie (May 3, 1930 in
Nice
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,
France
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– January 22, 2014 in
San Rafael,
California
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) was an American
academic
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and
Japanologist
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. Peattie was a specialist in modern Japanese military, naval, and imperial history.
[Hoover Institution, Stanford University]
Peattie bio notes
Career
Peattie was a professor emeritus at the
University of Massachusetts Boston
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and a research fellow at
Stanford University
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's
Hoover Institution
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. He was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii in 1995.
Peattie was a reader for
Columbia University Press
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,
University of California Press
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,
University of Hawaii Press
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,
Stanford University Press
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,
University of Michigan Press
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, and the
U.S. Naval Institute Press.
Select works
* 2002 – ''Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941''
* 1998 – ''Nan'yō: the Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945.'' Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press. ;
* 1997 – ''Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941'' (with David C. Evans). Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute Press.
* 1996 – ''The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945'' (with Peter Duus and Ramon H. Myers). Princeton:
Princeton University Press
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The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...
.
* 1975 – ''Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West.''
References
External links
*
Cohen, Eliot A.br>
"Review: ''Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941''" ''Foreign Affairs.'' May/Jun 1998.
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1930 births
2014 deaths
American military historians
American male non-fiction writers
University of Hawaiʻi faculty
American Japanologists
Hoover Institution people
University of Massachusetts Boston faculty