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Empire of dogs. Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world

Empire of dogs. Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world 250 BOOK REVIEWS would never again travel back to Japan, in spite of ideas being floated of him as Ambassador to Tokyo, or invitations to accompany his friend and former student Rudolf Hess to the Tokyo Olympics in 1940). Trautz was a favourite of Haushofer’s, but not of Haushofer’s family; son Albrecht Haushofer’s significant voyage to Japan in 1938 included a meeting with Trautz, who the junior Haushofer found to be “even more tactless than I remembered.” Tracing a few more academic rivalries and barbs, Spang plows up some of the bad reviews received by Haushofer’s reputational foundation work, Dai Nihon (Haushofer, 1913). Haushofer’s work in geopolitics and as intellectual adjutant to Hitler’s National Socialism is not at the heart of this book, but is hardly an afterthought. Spang begins the volume with a series of strikes on Herwig’s (2016) relatively new book on Haushofer as The Demon of Geopolitics, which Spang convincingly portrays as detached from recent historiography and somewhat obsolete. Spang delves into a recent scholarly edition of Mein Kampf to indicate that Haushofer’s influence over Hitler’s early thinking was not filtered through Hess, but was, in fact, direct. Haushofer’s interactions with the OAG were sporadic in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Empire of dogs. Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world

Holthus, Barbara
Contemporary Japan , Volume 33 (2): 4 – Jul 3, 2021
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Empire of dogs. Canines, Japan, and the making of the modern imperial world

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250 BOOK REVIEWS would never again travel back to Japan, in spite of ideas being floated of him as Ambassador to Tokyo, or invitations to accompany his friend and former student Rudolf Hess to the Tokyo Olympics in 1940). Trautz was a favourite of Haushofer’s, but not of Haushofer’s family; son Albrecht Haushofer’s significant voyage to Japan in 1938 included a meeting with Trautz, who the junior Haushofer found to be “even more tactless than I remembered.”...
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© 2020 Barbara Holthus
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1869-2737
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10.1080/18692729.2020.1812027
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250 BOOK REVIEWS would never again travel back to Japan, in spite of ideas being floated of him as Ambassador to Tokyo, or invitations to accompany his friend and former student Rudolf Hess to the Tokyo Olympics in 1940). Trautz was a favourite of Haushofer’s, but not of Haushofer’s family; son Albrecht Haushofer’s significant voyage to Japan in 1938 included a meeting with Trautz, who the junior Haushofer found to be “even more tactless than I remembered.” Tracing a few more academic rivalries and barbs, Spang plows up some of the bad reviews received by Haushofer’s reputational foundation work, Dai Nihon (Haushofer, 1913). Haushofer’s work in geopolitics and as intellectual adjutant to Hitler’s National Socialism is not at the heart of this book, but is hardly an afterthought. Spang begins the volume with a series of strikes on Herwig’s (2016) relatively new book on Haushofer as The Demon of Geopolitics, which Spang convincingly portrays as detached from recent historiography and somewhat obsolete. Spang delves into a recent scholarly edition of Mein Kampf to indicate that Haushofer’s influence over Hitler’s early thinking was not filtered through Hess, but was, in fact, direct. Haushofer’s interactions with the OAG were sporadic in

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