...Aaron Skabelund 5 Among such work, which makes a particularly important contribution to Japanese military history, from “outside” the field is Carter J. Eckert , Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945 ( Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard...

...Thomas G. Nimick The Treatises on Military Affairs of the Ming Dynastic History (1368–1644): An Annotated Translation of the Treatises on Military Affairs Chapter 89 and Chapter 90, Supplemented by the Treatises on Military Affairs of the Draft of the Ming Dynastic History, A Documentation...

... of bad inheritances [and] a weak political party … left Pakistan unable to make the significant changes to the civil-military balance from 1947 to 1958 that might have coup proofed the new state” (Wilkinson, p. 194). Pakistan did have another chance to dispatch the army back to its barracks in 1971 after...

... to surmise that the Indian trade union movement will remain a largely political movement with very little positive influence on future economic progress. PRADEEP KOTAMRAJU University of Minnesota, Duluth The Military and Politics in Pakistan, 1947-86. By HASAN-ASKARI RIZVI. Lahore: Progressive Publishers...

...David A. Wilson Military Roles in Modernization: Civil-Military Relations in Thailand and Burma . By Moshe Lissak . Beverly Hills : Sage Publications , 1976 . 255 pp. Index. $15.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 589 take a moment to reflect...

...John S. Lee Abstract This article explains why the Chosŏn government and the military in particular expanded state control over forests in the seventeenth century and analyzes the implications of forest administration in a preindustrial polity. From 1592 to 1598, the Chosŏn dynasty suffered...

... could “travel” to remote regions of India's Deccan, evolving into conspiracy narratives along the way. The discourse of conspiracy provided a pretext for military action and the annexation of territory. The story being told, however, is not simply about paranoid colonial officers who were all too eager...

... policy. Finally, chapter 5 details the various strategies used by medical and military authorities to keep the lock hospital system going through the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, after Lord Bentinck's parsimonious regime had officially abolished them as a cost-cutting venture. The next chapter...

...James T. C. Liu The Tokyo Trials: A Functional Index to the Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East . By Paul S. Dull and Michael Takaaki Umemura . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1957 . vi , 94 . $5.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Benjamin H. Hazard, Jr. The Korea Knot: A Military-Political History . By Carl Berger . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1957 . 206 . Bibliography, Index, Map. $5.00. Korea: A Study of U. S. Policy in the United Nations . By Leland Matthew Goodrich . New York...

...Nobutaka Ike Control of Japanese Foreign Policy: A Study of Civil-Military Rivalry 1930-1945 . By Yale Candee Maxon . University of California Publications in Political Science, Volume 5. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1957 . vi, 286 . Bibliography, Index. Cloth $6.00, Paper...

...Harold C. Hinton American Military Government in Korea . By E. Grant Meade . New York : King's Crown Press, Columbia University , 1951 . xii, 281 p. $3.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 BOOK REVIEWS 403 American policies in the Orient. Nor is there any...

...E-Tu Zen Sun The Rise of Chinese Military Power, 1895-1912 . By Ralph L. Powell . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1955 . x , 383. Bibliography, Glossary of Chinese Characters, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 408 FAR EASTERN...

...Joshua Gedacht Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines' Muslim South . By Michael C. Hawkins . DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press , 2013 . 185 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

... “Report on Military Expenditures of Previous Years” is among the best accounts on military finances by Tseng Kuo-fan, but even so, is nothing more than a brief report for the four-year period of HF 3 to HF 6 (1853–56). See TWCK, Vol. 3, 333–334. 20 LKIIC, Vol. I, Memorials, chüan 3, 86–87...

... pp. ISBN: 9781501749131 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Much of the literature on rimland Asian militaries has focused on the socialization of officers and their respective institutional cultures. 1 Far less has been written on rank-and-file...

...-annexation.” Arakawa Akira , “ Confronting Home-Grown Contradictions: Reflections on Okinawa's ‘Forty Years Since Reversion,’ ” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 11 , no. 25 (1) ( 2013 ) . 4 In Okinawa and the U.S. Military , reviewed in this essay, Masamichi Inoue puts the number...

...Armin Rappaport Panmunjom: The Story of the Korean Military Armistice Negotiations . By William H. Vatcher, Jr. New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1958 . 322 . Maps, Photographs, Index, Appendices. $4.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 118 JOURNAL...

...John S. Lee Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Chosŏn Korea early modern state environmental history forestry Imjin War Korean history logging military pine wood resources corrigendum https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911817001322 , published...

... cohorts engineered open access to global markets and raw materials while closing Japan's own economy to foreign investments. The United States accepted this because Japan was the keystone in its Asian security architecture. US military bases in Japan enabled Washington to conduct its wars in Korea...