Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey A Short History

Name: Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey A Short History
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ISBN: 9780824831745

ISBN-10: 0824831748

ISBN-13: 9780824831745

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael E. Robinson

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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…

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction : Korea's turbulent twentieth century



A new century and the end of an era



Colonial state and society



Class and nation in colonial Korea : the 1920s



Colonial modernity, assimilation, and war : 1930-1945



Liberation, civil war, and division



Political and economic development in South Korea



Going it alone : the DPRK 1953-present



Democratization in South Korea : 1987-2000


Prologue : untying the Korean knot