H I S T O R Y – Asian History / History of War
Cult of a Dark Hero Nicholson of Delhi Stuart Flinders A new account of the Irish soldier who became an Indian God, an examination of the cult of a dark hero, is long overdue. Cult of a Dark Hero: Nicholson of Dehli builds a fresh perspective on Nicholson, considering his personality, sexuality and attitude towards religion, this provides the first book-length biography of this important figure in over 70 years. UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 256 pages PB 9781350254862 • £12.99 / $17.95 Previously published in HB 9781350143524 ePub 9781838608323 • £22.50 / $29.96 ePdf 9781838608330 • £22.50 / $29.96 Bloomsbury Academic
The Life and Representations of Kim Tu-han
Erik Mobrand, Seoul National University, South Korea The son of a nationalist martyr, Kim Tu-han rose to prominence as a mobster in 1930s Seoul. As conditions shifted, he deployed his gang first as a construction corps supporting the Japanese war effort, then as a progressive force, and, most successfully, as an anti-communist vigilante group. After narrowly escaping the death sentence for murder, he won election as a legislator. Mobrand's intimate exposition of Kim Tu-han's unusual and contradictory life and posthumous legacy illustrates with distinct clarity how he has become lionised as a ‘folk hero’ and nationalist icon in contemporary Korean culture. UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350092594 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350092617 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350092600 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea War, Travel and the Reimagining of History
Ryota Nishino, University of the South Pacific, Fiji Translating a diverse range of Japanese sources, this book provides the first English-language analysis of the social and political impact of Japanese interpretations of military action in Papua New Guinea. In bringing travel and war closer together through a comparative analysis of veterans’ memoirs and the records of postwar travelers, this book explores how individuals consume, create, and recreate war histories. In doing so, Nishino reveals the extent to which the memory of defeat influenced the Japanese perceptions of Papua New Guinea and shaped future relations between the countries. UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350139008 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350139022 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350139015 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: War, Culture and Society • Bloomsbury Academic
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Justifying Violence on Korea’s Cold War Frontlines
Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia
Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans Jovan Byford, The Open University, UK Focusing on visual representations of genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and Roma by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), the book examines the origins and history of the relevant atrocity images, and charts their post-war fate. Drawing on extensive research in national and regional archives and museums in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, Jovan Byford scrutinizes the institutional dynamic behind the collection and preservation of atrocity photographs, and explores their contextualization, narrative framing and audiencing in the press, museum exhibitions, books, films, in war crimes trials and other settings, between 1945 and the present. UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 224 pages • 44 bw illus PB 9781350192522 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350015968 ePub 9781350015975 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350015982 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: War, Culture and Society • Bloomsbury Academic
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