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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Dawn of the Korean Nation | |
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| The Prehistoric Age | |
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| The Origins of the Korean People | |
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| Old Choson | |
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| Confederated Kingdoms | |
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| The Period of the Three Kingdoms (57 BC-AD 676) | |
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| The Growth of Koguryo | |
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| The Rise and Decline of Paekche | |
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| The Rise and Growth of Silla | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Kaya | |
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| Silla's Unification | |
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| Political and Social Structure of the Three Kingdoms | |
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| Culture of the Three Kingdoms | |
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| The Three Kingdoms and Japan | |
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| A "History War" with China | |
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| Parhae, Unified Silla, and the Later Three Kingdoms (676-936) | |
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| The Rise and Growth of Parhae | |
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| The Government and Society of Unified Silla | |
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| Unified Silk's Flourishing Culture | |
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| The Later Three Kingdoms | |
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| The First Half of the Koryo Period (918-1170) | |
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| Forging a Centralized Government | |
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| Ruling Structure | |
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| Economic and Social Structure | |
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| Foreign Relations in the Early Koryo Period | |
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| Development of Aristocratic Culture | |
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| The Second Half of the Koryo Period (1170-1392) | |
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| Disturbances in Koryo Society | |
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| Koryo and the Mongols | |
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| The Downfall of Koryo | |
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| The First Half of the Choson Period (1392-1650) | |
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| The Establishment of a New Order | |
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| Reorganization of the Ruling Structure | |
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| Social Structure and Economic Life | |
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| Territorial Expansion and Foreign Relations | |
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| Culture in Early Choson | |
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| The Growth of the Neo-Confucian Literati | |
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| The Struggle with the Japanese and Manchus | |
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| The Second Half of the Choson Period (1650-1910) | |
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| The Revival of the Dynasty | |
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| Cultural Rehabilitation | |
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| The Dynasty in Disturbance | |
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| Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| Policies of the Taewon�gun | |
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| The Open-Door Policy and the Reform Movement | |
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| The Tonghak Peasant War and the Kabo Reform | |
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| The Downfall of Choson | |
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| The Period of Japanese Colonial Rule (1910-1945) | |
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| Government by the Bayonet and the March First Movement | |
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| Japan's Shift to the "Cultural Policy" and Korean Nationalism | |
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| Japan's Tightening Grip on Korea and Korean Nationalism | |
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| Japans Revisionist History of Korea | |
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| The Allied Powers' Wartime Policy on Korea | |
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| Liberation, Division, and War (1945-1953) | |
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| From Occupation to a Separate Government in Southern Korea | |
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| Economic and Social Problems in Southern Korea | |
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| Northern Korea after Liberation | |
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| The Two Koreas before the Korean War | |
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| The Korean War | |
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| The Period of Postwar Reconstruction (1953-1971) | |
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| The Establishment of Authoritarian Rule in South Korea | |
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| The South Korean Economy and Society | |
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| South Korea's Relations with the United States and Japan | |
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| The Rise of the Juche State in North Korea | |
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| The North Korean Economy | |
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| North Korea's Foreign Relations | |
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| Reversal of Fortunes (1972-1992) | |
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| From Autocratic Rule to Democracy in South Korea | |
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| The Prospering South Korean Economy | |
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| Militaristic South Korean Society | |
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| South Korea's Foreign Relations | |
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| The Totalitarian State in North Korea | |
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| The North Korean Economy | |
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| North Korea's Foreign Relations | |
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| North-South Korean Relations | |
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| Both Koreas in a New Phase (1993 to the Present) | |
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| South Korean Democracy in Full Bloom | |
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| The South Korean Economy and Society | |
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| The Faltering Juche State in North Korea | |
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| North Korea's Weapons of Mass Destruction Problem | |
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| North-South Korean Relations | |
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| The Changing ROK-U.S. Alliance | |
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| South Korea's Relations with Neighboring Countries | |
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| Prospects for Reunification | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |