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'Based on a mountain of evidence in three languages, Transnational Nazism offers a striking vision of interwar Japan-German ties as an 'imagined community'. Far from a natural association of totalitarianism, the Anti-Comintern Pact relied on a decade and a half of willful cultural production by a wide array of civil society actors.' Frederick Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania '... an important work that represents a major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the nascent relationship between Germany and Japan between 1919 and 1936. Scholars of transnational Asian-German studies will find much of interest here, as will those who focus on the origins of the Axis ... Law makes a powerful and well-documented case for 'transnational Nazism' and its shaping influence on the ultimately disastrous political and military alliance between Germany and Japan.' Aaron D. Horton, German History 'Law persuasively argues that the Berlin-Tokyo Axis emerged as much from Japanese admiration for the National Socialist ideology as from any pragmatic military considerations ... Recommended.' J. Kleiman, Choice 'Based on a mountain of evidence in three languages, Transnational Nazism offers a striking vision of interwar Japan-German ties as an 'imagined community'. Far from a natural association of totalitarianism, the Anti-Comintern Pact relied on a decade and a half of willful cultural production by a wide array of civil society actors.' Frederick Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania '... an important work that represents a major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the nascent relationship between Germany and Japan between 1919 and 1936. Scholars of transnational Asian-German studies will find much of interest here, as will those who focus on the origins of the Axis ... Law makes a powerful and well-documented case for 'transnational Nazism' and its shaping influence on the ultimately disastrous political and military alliance between Germany and Japan.' Aaron D. Horton, German History 'Law persuasively argues that the Berlin-Tokyo Axis emerged as much from Japanese admiration for the National Socialist ideology as from any pragmatic military considerations ... Recommended.' J. Kleiman, Choice

'Based on a mountain of evidence in three languages, Transnational Nazism offers a striking vision of interwar Japan-German ties as an 'imagined community'. Far from a natural association of totalitarianism, the Anti-Comintern Pact relied on a decade and a half of willful cultural production by a wide array of civil society actors.' Frederick Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania '... an important work that represents a major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the nascent relationship between Germany and Japan between 1919 and 1936. Scholars of transnational Asian-German studies will find much of interest here, as will those who focus on the origins of the Axis ... Law makes a powerful and well-documented case for 'transnational Nazism' and its shaping influence on the ultimately disastrous political and military alliance between Germany and Japan.' Aaron D. Horton, German History 'Law persuasively argues that the Berlin-Tokyo Axis emerged as much from Japanese admiration for the National Socialist ideology as from any pragmatic military considerations ... Recommended.' J. Kleiman, Choice 'The book is excellent for its empirical discoveries ...' Angel Alcalde, Contemporary European History

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Ricky W. Law is Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. He has received grants and fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the Royster Society of Fellows. In 2013, he received the Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he earned his Ph.D., and the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize of the Friends of the German Historical Institute.

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