Iriye Akira

Iriye Akira ( Japanese 入 江 昭 , Irie Akira ; born October 20, 1934 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a historian who specializes in the history of American-East Asian relations and international problems.

Life

Iriye studied history at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1957 . He then received his PhD from Harvard University . After graduation, Iriye began teaching at Harvard, then held teaching positions at the University of California, Santa Cruz , the University of Rochester, and the University of Chicago before returning to Harvard as a professor of history. He received a Guggenheim scholarship in 1974 . In 1982 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . At Harvard in 1991 he took over the post of Charles Warren Professor of American History. After he retired from teaching at Harvard in 2005, he gave guest lectures at Waseda University , Ritsumeikan University, and the University of Chicago.

Honors

He is the only Japanese citizen to date to be named President of the American Historical Society . In 2005 he was awarded the Order of the Holy Treasure 2nd class. He was also awarded the Yoshida Shigeru Prize for the best popular science book on history and the Yoshino Sakuzo Prize .

Publications (selection)

• After Imperialism. The Search for a New Order in the Far East. 1921-1931 (= Harvard East Asian Series. Vol. 22, ISSN  0073-0491 ). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1965.
• Across the Pacific. An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York NY 1967.
• Pacific Estrangement. Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911 (= Harvard Studies in American East Asian Relations. Vol. 2). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1972, ISBN 0-674-65075-1 .
• as editor: Mutual Images. Essays in American-Japanese Relations (= Harvard Studies in American East Asian Relations. Vol. 7). Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1975, ISBN 0-674-59550-5 .
• as editor with Yōnosuke Nagai: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia Columbia University Press et al., New York NY et al. 1977, ISBN 0-231-04390-2 .
• Power and Culture. The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1981, ISBN 0-674-69580-1 .
• The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Longman, London et al. 1987, ISBN 0-582-49349-8 .
• The Internationalization of History. American Historical Association Presidential Address. 1988. In: The American Historical Review . Vol. 94, No. 1, 1989, pp. 1-10, online .
• as editor with Warren I. Cohen: The United States and Japan in the Postwar World. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 1989, ISBN 0-8131-1652-X .
• as editor with Warren I. Cohen: The Great Powers in East Asia, 1953-1960. Columbia University Press, New York NY et al. 1990, ISBN 0-231-07174-4 .
• Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations. (Japanese, 1991).
• Introduction: Historical Scholarship and Public Memory. In: Journal of American-East Asian Relations. Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1995, ISSN  1058-3947 , pp. 89-93, doi : 10.1163 / 187656195X00264 .
• as editor with Jürgen Osterhammel : The history of the world. CH Beck et al., Munich et al. 2012– running, ISBN 978-3-406-64100-8 (set);
  • Volume 5: Emily S. Rosenberg (Ed.): 1870-1945. World markets and world wars. 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64105-3 ;
  • Volume 6: Akira Iriye (Ed.): 1945 to today. The globalized world. 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64106-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Does Bob Geldof really deserve more attention than Alan Greenspan? in FAZ of December 3, 2013, page 30

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Iriye is the family name, Akira the first name.