Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other
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WILLIAM Ỗ? Maryìịèỷ CHARTERED 1693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2009Alfred Thayer Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Otherr Mahan and the Making of the Superior otherJohn William McGIashanCollege of William & Mary ■ Arts & SciencesFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etddz Part of the Military History Commons, and the United States History CommonsRecommended CitationMcGIashan, John William, Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other"Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other’ (2009).Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539626591.https://dx.doi.Org/doiAlfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other
:10.21220/s2-ln6m-av37This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, a Master Projects at W&M Scholarworks. It hWILLIAM Ỗ? Maryìịèỷ CHARTERED 1693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2009Alfred Thayer Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other please contact schoiarworksAlfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other
l fulfillment of the requirements for the degree ofMaster of ArtsApproved by the Committee, June, 2009Assistant Professor Hiroshi Kitamura, History ThWILLIAM Ỗ? Maryìịèỷ CHARTERED 1693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2009Alfred Thayer Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Otherge of Wiliam end MaryABSTRACT PAGEAt the turn of the twentieth century, many white Americans struggled to fit the Japanese into their social evolutionary models. Having been raised to believe that the title of civilied was exclusively reserved for members of the white. Western world, white Americans Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other were unsure of how to classify the inhabitants of the newly modernized Japanese state.Many Americans attempted to redefine the Japanese to fit theirAlfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other
understanding of what a civilized nation was, either by reclassifying them as a white, Chnstian nation or dismissing the modernization efforts of the WILLIAM Ỗ? Maryìịèỷ CHARTERED 1693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2009Alfred Thayer Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other who were willing to challenge the notion that social evolution was a linear, uniform process that began with races living a state of savagery and ended with them emerging in a society that mirrored Victorian England or Gilded Age America. Instead Mahan believed that Japan had emerged as a “Superior Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other Other." a modern, civilized. Asian nation that melded Eastern culture with Western knowledge. Mahan saw America s foreign policy towards Japan as a vAlfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other
ehicle to define the rights and responsibilities of this new form of civilization.While Mahan originally hoped to shape the Japanese into an ideal AmeWILLIAM Ỗ? Maryìịèỷ CHARTERED 1693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2009Alfred Thayer Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Otherca lacked the capacity to do so. Japan believed that its victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was proof that it had emerged as an equal of the other civilized nations of the West, and demanded that it be treated as if it were any other Western state Mahan feared that Japan would use the kn Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Otherowldege and technology it had acquired from the West to attack the West to when Japan felt it was not being treated as a civilized nation should MahanAlfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Other
’s contributions to the strategic War Plan of 1911. that laid out America's course of action in a war against Japan, demonstrate how he believed AmencWILLIAM Ỗ? Maryìịèỷ CHARTERED 1693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2009Alfred Thayer Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Making of the Superior Otherse civilizationWILLIAM Ỗ? Maryìịèỷ CHARTERED 1693W&M ScholarworksDissertations, Theses, and Masters ProjectsTheses, Dissertations, & Master Projects2009Alfred ThayerGọi ngay
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