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Author | : Man-gil Kang |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2019-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004213740 |
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Now in English, this important new contribution from a distinguished Korean historian on the history of twentieth-century Korea covers: first, the Japanese colonial period, including detailed accounts of the anti Japanese independence movements, followed by the liberation of Korea, the Korean War and political developments up to the late 1980s.
Author | : Bruce Cumings |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2005-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393347532 |
Download Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated Edition) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive movements forward are tempered by frustrating steps backward. In the late 1990s South Korea survived its most severe economic crisis since the Korean War, forcing a successful restructuring of its political economy. Suffering through floods, droughts, and a famine that cost the lives of millions of people, North Korea has been labeled part of an "axis of evil" by the George W. Bush administration and has renewed its nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world.
Author | : Hagen Koo |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1501731769 |
Download State and Society in Contemporary Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Chung-sŏk Sŏ |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Korea (South) |
ISBN | : |
Download Contemporary History of South Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Don Oberdorfer |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2013-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465031234 |
Download The Two Koreas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted—and threatened to embroil—the rest of the world. In this landmark history, now thoroughly revised and updated in conjunction with Korea expert Robert Carlin, veteran journalist Don Oberdorfer grippingly describes how a historically homogenous people became locked in a perpetual struggle for supremacy—and how they might yet be reconciled.
Author | : Michael J Seth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 749 |
Release | : 2016-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317811488 |
Download Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century when Korea became entangled in the world of modern imperialism and the old social, economic and political order began to change; this handbook brings together cutting edge scholarship on major themes in Korean History. Contributions by experts in the field cover the Late Choson and Colonial periods, Korea’s partition and the diverging paths of North and South Korea. Topics covered include: The division of Korea Religion Competing imperialisms Economic change War and rebellions Nationalism Gender North Korea Under Kim Jong Il Global Korea The Handbook provides a stimulating introduction to the most important themes within the subject area, and is an invaluable reference work for any student and researcher of Korean History.
Author | : Bruce Cumings |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081297896X |
Download The Korean War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides. Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.
Author | : Michael E. Robinson |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2007-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824831748 |
Download Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey is designed to provide readers with the historical essentials upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region. Beginning with a description of late-nineteenth-century imperialism, Michael Robinson shows how traditional Korean political culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy by Japan in the 1870s. He locates the origins of both modern nationalism and the economic and cultural modernization of Korea in the twenty years preceding the fall of the traditional state to Japanese colonialism in 1910. Robinson breaks new ground with his analysis of the colonial period, tracing the ideological division of contemporary Korea to the struggle of different actors to mobilize a national independence movement at the time. More importantly, he locates the reason for successful Japanese hegemony in policies that included—and thus implicated—Koreans within the colonial system. He concludes with a discussion of the political and economic evolution of South and North Korea after 1948 that accounts for the valid legitimacy claims of both nation-states on the peninsula.
Author | : Sojin Lim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000421538 |
Download Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea offers a ground-breaking study of the socio-political development of the Korean peninsula in the contemporary period. Written by an international team of scholars and experts, contributions to this book address key intellectual questions in the development of Korean studies, projecting new ways of thinking about how international systems can be organised and how local societies adapt to global challenges. Academically rigorous, each chapter defines current research and lends the reader greater understanding of the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of South Korea, ranging from chapters on the Korean Wave to relations with North Korea and the Korean language overseas. The volume is divided into eight sections, each representing a focused area of inquiry: socio-political history contemporary politics political economy and development society culture international relations security and diplomacy South Korea in international education This handbook provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensive account of contemporary South Korea. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Korean history, politics and international relations, culture and society, and will also appeal to policy makers interested in the Indo-Asia Pacific region.
Author | : Robert Kong Chan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 331962265X |
Download Korea-China Relations in History and Contemporary Implications Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the complex relations between Joseon Korea (1392–1910) and Ming/Qing China in history, and reveals their contemporary implications for the nature of a China-dominated order in East Asia and the relations between China and the middle powers in the region. Instead of relying on the works that offer over-generalized conclusions based on information drawn from secondary sources, this book provides a much more nuanced account of the Koreans’ experience of managing their relations with the great powers by analyzing the first-hand evidence documented by the Joseon historiographers related to the major events in Joseon–Ming relations, Joseon’s response to power transition from Ming to Qing, and Joseon–Qing relations. In East Asia today where the middle powers are facing the rise of China and a trilateral dilemma as a result of the Sino–US rivalry in the region, what history can tell us is of significant value to scholars, policy advisers, and policymakers.