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Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Paperback)
$18.72 - Save $1.94 (9%) - RRP $20.66 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Korea's Place in the SunAn updated edition of the political and cultural history of Korea, brought up to the modern day.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 18 October 2005
- Format: Paperback 528 pages
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- Categories: Asian History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780393327021 ISBN 10: 0393327027
- Sales rank: 114,903
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Full description for Korea's Place in the Sun
Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive movements forward are tempered by frustrating steps backward. In the late 1990s South Korea survived its most severe economic crisis since the Korean War, forcing a successful restructuring of its political economy. Suffering through floods, droughts and a famine that cost the lives of millions of people, North Korea has been labelled part of an "axis of evil" by the current Bush administration and has renewed its nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world.
