Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Professor of Japanese history, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1977 : oral history transcript / 2000.
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
Professor of Japanese history, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1977 : oral history transcript / 2000University of California history series: Department of History at Berkeley
Creator/Contributor:
Brown, Delmer M., 1909-2011, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lage, Ann, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Scheiner, Irwin.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Family and boyhood in Kansas and southern California; teaching in Japan, 1932-1938: observations of Japanese culture, religion,
and militarism; graduate studies in history, Stanford and Harvard; World War II service as naval intelligence officer, Pearl
Harbor, 1940-1945; professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1970s: departmental leadership,
key faculty appointments, effects of the loyalty oath, student unrest in the 1960s, changes in curriculum, chairing the department,
1957-1961 and 1972-1975; East Asian studies at Berkeley: the East Asiatic Library and the Center for Japanese Studies; Academic
Senate chairman, 1971-1972, and service on the budget committee; publications on Japanese history and culture, working with
Japanese scholars; reflections on teaching, foreign language studies, Education Abroad Program, graduate students; family,
religion, and retirement.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- a-ja---College teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Historians -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Japanese -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Shinto
Religions -- Relations
Christianity and other religions
Shintō
Religions -- Relations
Christianisme -- Relations
Interfaith relations
Shinto
Religions
Manners and customs
Japanese -- Social life and customs
Historians
College teachers
Christianity and other religions
Japan -- Social life and customs
Japon -- Mœurs et coutumes
Japan
California -- Berkeley
University of California (1868-1952). -- Department of History.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of History.
University of California, Berkeley. -- East Asia Studies.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Center for Japanese Studies.
University of California, Berkeley. -- East Asia Studies
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of History
University of California, Berkeley. -- Center for Japanese Studies
Note:
Delmer M. Brown ; with an introduction by Irwin Scheiner ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1995. Regional Oral History
Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: University history series, Department of History at Berkeley.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3080 C:1-14.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyPictorial works.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volumes (x, 410 pages) : illustrations, portrait ; 29 cm
14 audiocassettes
1 portfolio.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.