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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 ...
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.
In the 19th and early-20th centuries, Japan alone among the major countries of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East succeeded in escaping colonial or neo-colonial domination by the United States and expansionist nations of Europe.
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Jan 1, 2001 · 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, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.”
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Apr 12, 2000 · Professor John W. Dower has won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. The news was a pleasant surprise to Professor Dower, who'd heard rumors in literary circles that he was not serious contender.
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...
Feb 12, 1987 · 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, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.”
