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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Title: Alvin Coox papers
Creator:
Coox, Alvin D. (1924-1999)
Identifier/Call Number: 3016
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/6/resources/1505
Physical Description:
57.979 Linear Feet
54 boxes
Date (bulk): 1920s-1990s
Abstract: This collection consists of files, photographs and audio recordings relating to the research and teaching career of military
historian Alvin Coox (1924-1999), particularly pertaining to the 1939 Battle of Nomonhan between Japan and the Soviet Union.
Language of Material:
English.
Alvin D. Coox, a historian of modern Japanese military history, was born in Rochester, New York, in 1924. He earned a bachelor's
from New York University and received a master's in history and a doctorate in history and government from Harvard University.
In the late 1940s, he taught history at Harvard and was a senior historian at the Johns Hopkins University. In the 1950s and
1960s, he spent fifteen years in Japan, including six years as an intelligence analyst for the United States Air Force. In
1964, Coox began teaching at San Diego State University, and later also served as head of the Center for Asian Studies. He
retired in 1995. He wrote eight books, including "Nomonham: Japan Against Russia, 1939" (Stanford University Press, 1986).
He died in 1999.
This collection consists of files, photographs and audio recordings relating to the research and teaching career of military
historian Alvin Coox (1924-1999), particularly pertaining to the 1939 Battle of Nomonhan between Japan and the Soviet Union.
Materials include interviews, biographies, correspondence, research files and clippings, audio tapes of interviews, history
lessons, etc.
A portion of files in the Coox collection have been digitized in the USC Digital Library.
Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the East Asian Library at
eal@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the East Asian Library as the owner of the physical items and
is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Hisako Coox, 2010.
[Box/folder# or item name], Alvin Coox papers, Collection no. 3016, East Asian Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California
Parts of this collection are not fully processed. Box 55 appears to be missing.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Armies -- Japan -- Archival resources
Air Forces -- Japan -- Archival resources
Japan -- Foreign relations -- Russia -- Archival resources
Khalkhin Gol, Battle of, Mongolia, 1939 -- Archival resources
Mukden Incident, 1931 -- Archival resources
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu sheng, China, 1937 -- Archival resources
Navies -- Japan -- Archival resources
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 -- Archival resources
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Archival resources
Audiotapes
Interviews
Biography
Correspondence
Newspaper clippings
Coox, Alvin D. (1924-1999) -- Archives