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Book cover for Gregg Brazinsky: Nation Building in South Korea

Nation Building in South Korea : Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy

Gregg Brazinsky
Hardcover - $90.95

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshalling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nati ...

Book cover for Michael Breen: The Koreans

The Koreans : Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies

Michael Breen
Paperback - $27.95

The rise of South Korea is one of the most unexpected and inspirational developments of the latter part of our century. A few decades ago, the Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they came out of the fields and into S ...

Book cover for Arthur Judson Brown: The Mastery of the Far East

The Mastery of the Far East : The Story of Korea's Transformation and Japan's Rise to Supremacy

Arthur Judson Brown
Hardcover - $101.95



Book cover for Arthur Judson Brown: The Mastery of the Far East

The Mastery of the Far East : The Story of Korea's Transformation and Japan's Rise to Supremacy

Arthur Judson Brown
Paperback - $78.95



Book cover for Adrian Buzo: The Guerilla Dynasty

The Guerilla Dynasty : Politics and Leadership in North Korea

Adrian Buzo
Paperback - $92.95

"Throughout the 1990s, North Korea has operated under a skeptical international eye, due largely to the country's rigorous self-imposed isolation, its on-going confrontation with South Korea, a controv"

Book cover for Adrian Buzo: The Making of Modern Korea

The Making of Modern Korea

Adrian Buzo
Paperback - $88.95

This fully updated second edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1910 to the present day. The text is unique in placing emphasis on Korea??'s regional and geographical context, through w ...

Book cover for Adrian Buzo: The Making of Modern Korea

The Making of Modern Korea : A History

Adrian Buzo
Hardcover - $338.95

This text provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1909 to the present day. Key features of the book include:
*Comprehensive coverage of Korean History
*Analysis of important contemporary developments
*A comparati ...

Book cover for Adrian Buzo: The Making of Modern Korea

The Making of Modern Korea : A History

Adrian Buzo
Paperback - $96.95

This text provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1909 to the present day. Key features of the book include:
*Comprehensive coverage of Korean History
*Analysis of important contemporary developments
*A compar ...

Book cover for Yongho Choe: Sources of Korean Tradition

Sources of Korean Tradition : Volume 2

Yongho Choe
Paperback - $70.95

This collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for understanding Korean civilization and demonstrates how leading intellectu ...

Book cover for Kyeong-Hee Choi: Colonial Modernity in Korea

Colonial Modernity in Korea

Kyeong-Hee Choi
Paperback - $46.95

The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation versus Korean resistance that has dominated the study of Korea's colonial period (1910-1945) by adopting a more inclusive, pluralisti ...

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