Mark R. Peattie (May 3, 1930 – January 22, 2014) was an American academic and Japanologist, renowned for his expertise in modern Japanese military, naval, and imperial history. Born in

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, and later residing in San Rafael,

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, Peattie made significant contributions to the study of Japan's wartime history. Throughout his career, he published extensively on the subject and was a respected figure in the field of Japanese studies.Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Early life

Mark Peattie was born to Louise Redfield and Donald C. Peattie, an American botanist and author when they were living in southern France. His family later moved to Illinois and then California. The novelist Elia W. Peattie was his grandmother.

Career

Peattie was a professor emeritus at the

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and a research fellow at

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's Hoover Institution. He was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii in 1995. Peattie was a reader for

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, and the U.S. Naval Institute Press.

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:

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. * 1975 – ''Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West''.

References

External links

* Cohen, Eliot A.br>"Review: ''Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941''"
''Foreign Affairs''. May/Jun 1998. {{DEFAULTSORT:Peattie, Mark 1930 births 2014 deaths American military historians American male non-fiction writers University of Hawaiʻi faculty American Japanologists Hoover Institution people University of Massachusetts Boston faculty