Pash's work represents a new wave of scholarship examining Japanese-U.S. relations, as well as World War II in Asia.
~G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University
Pash is not content to write traditional narrative diplomatic history in his ambitious and compelling study of U.S-Japanese relations from the late 19th Century to the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941. Instead, he writes 'revisionist' history in the best sense of the word—as a cautionary tale of mistakes and lessons that should not be repeated but often are.
~J. Garry Clifford, University of Connecticut
This fascinating book gives insight into the competitive relationship between the United States and Japan from 1899–1941.
~The Lone Star Book Review
This is a well-written book that examines the decades-long U.S. effort at containing Japanese continental expansion.
~Journal of Military History
This sharply argued and well-researched book is quite timely. [...] Sidney Pash's detailed analysis of US-Japanese relations from 1899-1941 explores the conflicts and, more importantly, the principles that created those memories. This important contribution wraps an imaginative, detailed study of US-Japanese relations during an epoch within a broader analysis of both the global context and the series of broad US policy principles, or pillars. It is a major reformulation of a historic relationship that Asians and Americans now remember as ending in devastation.
~Historian
This sharply argued and well-researched book is quite timely. This important contribution wraps an imaginative, detailed study of US-Japanese relations during an epoch within a broader analysis of both the global context and the series of broad US policy principles, or pillars. It is a major reformulation of a historic relationship that Asians and Americans now remember as ending in devastation.
~The Historian
