Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)
- ISBN-10
- 0393327027
- ISBN-13
- 9780393327021
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 542
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-09-17
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Bruce Cumings
Description
A narrative chronicle of modern Korea focuses on the country's turbulent twentieth-century history, discussing its 1910 loss of independence, its years under Japanese rule, its division and the Korean War, and its postwar recovery and economic growth.
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