Korea's twentieth-century odyssey
Subtitle: a short history
By: Michael E. Robinson.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780824830809; 9780824831745
Subjects: Korea -- History -- 20th century -- Textbooks.; Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century -- Textbooks.; Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century -- Textbooks.
Genres: Textbooks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Korea's turbulent 20th century; title: A new century and the end of an era; title: Colonial state and society; title: Class and nation in colonial Korea: the 1920s; title: Colonial modernity, assimilation, and war: 1930-1945; title: Liberation, civil war, and division; title: Political and economic development in South Korea; title: Going it alone: the DPRK, 1953-present; title: Democratization in South Korea: 1987-2000; title: Epilogue. Untying the Korean knot.