Mark R. Peattie (May 3, 1930 in

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. Peattie was a specialist in modern Japanese military, naval, and imperial history.Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Career

Peattie was a professor emeritus at the

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and a research fellow at

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. He was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii in 1995. Peattie was a reader for

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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:

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. * 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Peattie, Mark 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