Mark Peattie Explained

Mark R. Peattie (May 3, 1930 in Nice, France – January 22, 2014 in San Rafael, California)^[1] was an American academic and Japanologist. Peattie was a specialist in modern Japanese military, naval, and imperial history.^{[2] [3]}

Career

Peattie was a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii in 1995.^[2]

Peattie was a reader for Columbia University Press, University of California Press, University of Hawaii Press, Stanford University Press, University of Michigan Press, and the U.S. Naval Institute Press.^[2]

Select works

• 2002  - Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941
• 1998  - Nan'yō: the Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press. ;
• 1997  - Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 (with David C. Evans). Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute Press.
• 1996  - The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945 (with Peter Duus and Ramon H. Myers). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• 1975  - Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West.

External links

• Cohen, Eliot A. "Review: Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941", Foreign Affairs. May/Jun 1998.

Notes and References

1. http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/mark_r_peattie_renowned_expert_on_japanese_wartime_history_dies_20140207 Mark R. Peattie, renowned expert on Japanese wartime history, dies
2. Hoover Institution, Stanford University: Peattie bio notes
3. News: Mark Peattie, PhD. 16 September 2015. Mercury News. 9 February 2014.