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Korea's place in the sun : a modern history
- Title
- Korea's place in the sun : a modern history / Bruce Cumings.
- Author
- Cumings, Bruce, 1943-
- Publication
- New York : Norton, 1998, ©1997.
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Details
- Description
- 527 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- Bruce Cumings's rich narrative focuses on Korea's fractured, shattered, twentieth-century history. In 1910 Korea lost its centuries-old independence, and it remained an exploited colony of Japan until 1945. Then came national division, political turmoil, a devastating war, and the death and dislocation of millions, all of which left Korea still divided and in desperate poverty. Its recovery and spectacular growth over the next generation is one of this century's most remarkable achievements.
- Cumings provides a compelling account of Korea's travails and triumphs in the modern period.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-502) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Virtues -- 2. The Interests, 1860-1904 -- 3. Eclipse, 1905-1945 -- 4. The Passions, 1945-1948 -- 5. Collision, 1948-1953 -- 6. Korean Sun Rising: Industrialization, 1953-1996 -- 7. The Virtues, II: The Democratic Movement, 1960-1996 -- 8. Nation of the Sun King: North Korea, 1953-1996 -- 9. America's Koreans -- 10. Korea's Place in the World.
- ISBN
- 0393316815 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96015398
- OCLC
- 40627294
- ocm40627294
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries