Thomas Havens Explained

Thomas Robert Hamilton Havens (born November 21, 1939) is an American Japanologist.

Havens is from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton University in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, followed by a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962.[1] He remained at Berkeley to earn a doctorate in history in 1965, and began his teaching career at University of Toronto before moving to Connecticut College in 1966. While on the Connecticut College faculty, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976.[2] Havens joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1990, where he taught for two years before accepting a teaching position at Berkeley. Havens served as a faculty member for his alma mater for six years, then in 1999, moved to Northeastern University.[3]

He is married to Karen Thornber, the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University.

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Book: Commencement Programs . 1962 . University of California, Berkeley . 123 .
  2. News: Thomas R. H. Havens . 11 April 2022 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  3. News: Tom Havens . 11 April 2022 . Northeastern University.
  4. Reviews of Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought include:
    • Chang . Richard T. . Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought. By Thomas R. H. Havens. Princeton: University Press, 1970. viii, 246 pp. Index. $8.50. . The Journal of Asian Studies . November 1970 . 30 . 1 . 189–190 . 10.2307/2942757.
    • Borton . Hugh . Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought. By Thomas R. H. Havens. (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 1970. Pp. viii, 253. $8.50.) . The American Historical Review . December 1970 . 75 . 7 . 2110 . 10.1086/ahr/75.7.2110.
    • Saunders . E. Dale . Thomas R. H. Havens. Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought. Pp. viii, 253. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970. $8.50 . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 1970 . 390 . 1 . 159 . 10.1177/000271627039000145.
  5. Reviews of Farm and Nation in Modern Japan include:
    • Boyle . John H. . Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940 . Journal of the American Oriental Society . 1976 . 96 . 3 . 441 .
    • Choi . Kee Il . Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870–1940. By Thomas R. H. Havens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. Pp. xi, 358. $15.00. . The Journal of Economic History . June 1977 . 37 . 2 . 519–520 . 10.1017/S0022050700097369.
    • Fukushima . Y. . Thomas R. H. Havens, Farm and Nation in Modern Japan (Book Review) . Technology and Culture . July 1975 . 16 . 3 . 504 . .
    • Smith . Henry D. . Reviewed Works: Farm and Nation in Modern Japan. Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940 by Thomas R. H. Havens; A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism. The Army and the Rural Community by Richard J. Smethurst . The Journal of Japanese Studies . 1975 . 2 . 1 . 131–147 . 132042.
    • Soranaka . Isao . Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940, by Thomas Havens . Canadian Journal of History . 1975 . 10 . 1 . 132–133 . 10.3138/cjh.10.1.132.
    • Israel . Jerry . Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870–1940 . History: Reviews of New Books . 1975 . 3 . 3 . 71–72 . 10.1080/03612759.1975.9946754.
    • Pyle . Kenneth B. . Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940. Thomas R. H. Havens . Economic Development and Cultural Change . January 1978 . 26 . 2 . 425–427 . 10.1086/451029.
  6. Reviews of Valley of Darkness include:
    • Richard Storry. Storry . Richard . Reviewed Work: Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two by Thomas R. H. Havens . The Journal of Japanese Studies . 1980 . 6 . 1 . 197–200 . 132007.
    • Gary Allinson . Allinson . Gary D. . Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. By Thomas R.H. Havens. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. xi, 280 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Illustrations, Index. $9.95. . The Journal of Asian Studies . November 1978 . 38 . 1 . 175–178 . 10.2307/2054258.
  7. Reviews of Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan include:
    • Munsterberg . Hugo . Thomas R. H. Havens. Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts, 1955–1980. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1982. Pp. ix, 324. $25.00 . The American Historical Review . June 1983 . 88 . 3 . 735 . 10.1086/ahr/88.3.735.
    • Tono . Yoshiaki . Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan by Thomas R. H. Havens (Book Review) . Japan Quarterly . July 1983 . 30 . 3 . 318 . .
    • Waterhouse . David . Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts, 1955–1980 by Thomas R.H. Havens. 326 pp., illus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. $25.00. . Dance Research Journal . 1984 . 16 . 1 . 10.2307/1478260.
  8. Reviews of Fire Across the Sea include:
    • Vlastos . Stephen . Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965–1975. By By Thomas H. Havens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. ix, 300 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). . The Journal of Asian Studies . February 1989 . 48 . 2 . 162–163 . 10.2307/2057704.
    • Konaka . Yotaro . Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965-1975 by Thomas R.H. Havens (Book Review) . Japan Quarterly . April 1988 . 35 . 2 . 213 . .
    • Vinh . Sinh . Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965-1975, by Thomas R.H. Havens . Canadian Journal of History . 1988 . 23 . 2 . 301–302 . 10.3138/cjh.23.2.301.
  9. Reviews of Architects of Affluence include:
    • Bernstein . Jeffrey R. . The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan's Richest Family. By Lesley Downer · New York: Random House Press, 1995. xxvii + 418 pp. Charts, maps, index, and bibliography. $25.00. ISBN 0-679-42554-3. - Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Japan. ByThomas R. H. Havens · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. xv + 335 pp. Photos, pictures, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-674-04360-X. . Business History Review . 1996 . 70 . 1 . 135–137 . 10.2307/3117236.
    • Allinson . Gary D. . Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu Enterprises in 20th-Century Japan. by Thomas R. H. Havens . Monumenta Nipponica . 1995 . 50 . 4 . 577–579 . 2385604.
  10. Reviews of Radicals and Realists include:
    • Igarashi . Yoshikuni . Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. By Thomas R. H. Havens. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 312 pp. $38.00 (cloth). . The Journal of Asian Studies . November 2007 . 66 . 4 . 1167–1169 . 10.1017/S0021911807001647.
    • Gardner . William O. . Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism (review) . Monumenta Nipponica . 2008 . 63 . 1 . 203–205 . 10.1353/mni.0.0015.
    • Volk . Alicia . Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-garde Rejection of Modernism (review) . The Journal of Japanese Studies . 2010 . 36 . 2 . 363–368 . 10.1353/jjs.0.0182.
  11. Reviews of Parkscapes include:
    • George . Timothy S. . Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan (review) . The Journal of Japanese Studies . 2012 . 38 . 1 . 245–248 . 10.1353/jjs.2012.0019.
    • Kang Cao . Book review: Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan . Urban Studies . September 2014 . 51 . 12 . 26145897 . 2711–2713 . 10.1177/0042098014540013.
  12. Reviews for Marathon Japan include:
    • Manzenreiter . Wolfram . MARATHON JAPAN: Distance Racing and Civic Culture By Thomas R.H. Havens . Pacific Affairs . September 2016 . 89 . 3 . 662–665 .
    • Hübner . Stefan . Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture by Thomas R. H. Havens (review) . Monumenta Nipponica . 2016 . 71 . 2 . 487–491 . 10.1353/mni.2016.0063.
    • Kietlinski . Robin . Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture, by Thomas R. H. Havens. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015, 240 pp., $47.00 (ISBN 978-0-8248-4101-0) . Social Science Japan Journal . January 2017 . 20 . 1 . 10.1093/ssjj/jyw050 . 160–162.
    • Thompson . Lee . Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture . Japanese Studies . 2018 . 38 . 1 . 125–127 . 10.1080/10371397.2018.1440936.
  13. Pitt . Jon L. . Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World by Thomas R. H. Havens (review) . Monumenta Nipponica . 2021 . 76 . 1 . 163–167 . 10.1353/mni.2021.0003.

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