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From allies to enemies : Spain, Japan and the Axis in World War II / Florentino Rodao.

9789811984730 (electronic bk.)
9811984735 (electronic bk.)
9789811984723

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

1 online resource (xxviii, 342 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-981-19-8473-0 doi

D754.S7

940.53/2446

To understand the turnaround in Spain⁰́₉s stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London ironically replied when it learned of Spain⁰́₉s warmongering against one of the Axis members. Florentino Rodao is a Professor of Modern History at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has two Ph. D⁰́₉s (Complutense and the University of Tokyo) and has also taught in the universities of Ateneo de Manila, KeioÌ⁴, Wisconsin-Madison, Puerto Rico and Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs. As visiting scholar and such, he has been at Australian National, Tokyo at Komaba, Harvard, South Pacific at Laucala, California at Berkeley and Hawai⁰́₉I at MaÌ⁴noa. Rodao has worked extensively on Spanish interactions with East Asia and the Pacific. Besides edited books and articles, he authored Espan̳oles en Siam, 1540-1939. Una contribucion al estudio de la presencia hispana en Asia Oriental (1997), and has published extensively on the Philippines, such as Franquistas sin Franco. Una historia alternativa de la Guerra Civil Espanlola desde Filipinas (2012). He has also published for wider audiences, such as La Soledad del Pai̹s Vulnerable. Japon since 1945 (2019).

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