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Carruthers, Susan L. (2018) Latrines as the measure of men : American soldiers and the politics of disgust in occupied Europe and Asia. Diplomatic History, 42 (1). pp. 109-137. doi:10.1093/dh/dhx071 ISSN 0145-2096.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhx071
Abstract
Alan Sterling, a teenage radioman in the U.S. Navy, sailed into Tokyo Bay on September 15, 1945, just thirteen days after Japanese delegates had signed the Allied instrument of surrender on board the U.S.S. Missouri. Like many of his peers, Sterling regularly sent home accounts of the peculiar places and people encountered in the course of his military service, arriving in Japan by way of the Philippines and Okinawa. Dissatisfied with verbal description, he shared a mania for photography widespread among U.S. occupation personnel. In a preliminary missive from Tokyo, Alan sought his sister’s help in realizing his ambitions as auteur. “Now that the war is over I would give anything to have a movie camera out here. Even though these...
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Diplomatic History | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0145-2096 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 January 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 109-137 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/dh/dhx071 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 July 2018 |
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