Fwd: The Last Samurai Review

[Aaron Gerow]

H-Japan had a discussion about the Last Samurai before we did 
(interested people can look up the posts on the H-NET site), but one 
participant just posted a review on the History News Network.

Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Jonathan Dresner <dresner at hawaii.edu>
> Subject: The Last Samurai Review
>
> I know the discussion of "Last Samurai" has died down, and I'm not
> particularly trying to start it up again, but I did want to post a 
> link to
> my review, written for the History News Network:
>
> http://hnn.us/articles/2746.html.
>
> I'd also like to thank everyone who did participate in the exchanges,
> which gave me a great deal to think about before I went into the movie.
>
> For those of you who don't want to read the whole review here's the 
> capsule
> form: great sets, lousy history. The only consolation is that I won't 
> be
> teaching that period again until next spring, so my students should 
> have
> time to forget most of it.....
>
> Jonathan Dresner
> Dept. of History
> University of Hawai'i at Hilo
> http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~dresner
>
>
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