The Origins Of The Korean War Liberation And The Emergence Of Separate Regimes 1945 1947

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Cornell
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015072790333

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The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the emergence of separate regimes, 1945-1947 by Bruce Cumings Pdf

Distributed for Yuksabipyungsa Press Bruce Cumings maintains in his classic account that the origin of the Korean War must be sought in the five-year period preceding the war, when Korea was dominated by widespread demands for political, economic, and social change. Making extensive use of Korean-language materials from North and South, and of classified documents, intelligence reports, and U.S. military sources, the author examines the background of postwar Korean politics and the arrival of American and Soviet troops in 1945. Cumings then analyzes Korean politics and American policies in Seoul as well as in the hinterlands. Arguing that the Korean War was civil and revolutionary in character, Cumings shows how the basic issues over which the war was fought were apparent immediately after Korea's liberation from colonial rule in 1945. These issues led to o the effective emergence of separate northern and southern regimes within a year, extensive political violence in the southern provinces, and preemptive American policies designed to create a bulwark against revolution in the South and Communism in the North.

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1981-c1990.
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3826937

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The Origins of the Korean War by Bruce Cumings Pdf

The description for this book, The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947, will be forthcoming.

Author : Peter Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890928

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The Origins of the Korean War by Peter Lowe Pdf

The impressive Second Edition of this standard study incorporates important new evidence on the origins of the war from Chinese and Russian archives. It reveals that Stalin encouraged the attack on South Korea, but also confirms that the original initiative came from North Korea. Peter Lowe has also written an extended conclusion with a discussion of the Koreas in the late 1990s, and the challenges involved in securing their reunification.

Author : Peter Lowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Korea
ISBN : OCLC:786487051

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The Origins of the Korean War by Peter Lowe Pdf

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 975 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 8976966139

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The Origins of the Korean War: The roaring of the cataract, 1947-1950 by Bruce Cumings Pdf

Distributed for Yuksabipyungsa Press In Volume II of The Origins of the Korean War, Cumings examines the internal political-economic development of the two Korean states and the consequences, for Korea, of Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. He investigates the intense border fighting and internal political instability that preceded the Northern invasion and challenges the notion of sudden Soviet-sponsored intervention. He discusses, among other topics, the containment doctrine as applied to South Korea and the subsequent adoption by the United States of a "rollback" policy aimed at eliminating communism in North Korea.

Author : William Stueck
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126654

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The Korean War in World History by William Stueck Pdf

" The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck’s introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war’s place within the history of the twentieth century. The Korean War had two very different faces. On one level the conflict was local, growing out of the internal conditions of Korea and fought almost entirely within the confines of a small Asian country located far from Europe. The fighting pitted Korean against Korean in a struggle to determine the balance of political power within the country. Yet the war had a huge impact on the international politics of the Cold War. Combat threatened to extend well beyond the peninsula, potentially igniting another global conflagration and leaving in its wake a much escalated arms race between the Western and Eastern blocs. The dynamics of that division remain today, threatening international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Lloyd Gardner, Chen Jian, Allan R. Millett, Michael Schaller, and Kathryn Weathersby

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300154979

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Dominion from Sea to Sea by Bruce Cumings Pdf

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship with Europe. Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovative new history, arguing that relations with Asia influenced our history greatly. Cumings chronicles how the movement westward, from the Middle West to the Pacific, has shaped America’s industrial, technological, military, and global rise to power. He unites domestic and international history, international relations, and political economy to demonstrate how technological change and sharp economic growth have created a truly bicoastal national economy that has led the world for more than a century. Cumings emphasizes the importance of American encounters with Mexico, the Philippines, and the nations of East Asia. The result is a wonderfully integrative history that advances a strong argument for a dual approach to American history incorporating both Atlanticist and Pacificist perspectives.

Author : Hugo G. Nutini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN : 0691093830

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Ritual Kinship: Ideological and structural integration of the compadrazgo system in rural Tlazcala by Hugo G. Nutini Pdf

Author : Yōnosuke Nagai,Akira Iriye
Publisher : University of Tokyo Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037015455

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The Origins of the Cold War in Asia by Yōnosuke Nagai,Akira Iriye Pdf

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393347531

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Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated Edition) by Bruce Cumings Pdf

"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's 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 labeled part of an "axis of evil" by the George W. 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.

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Random House LLC
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812978964

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The Korean War by Bruce Cumings Pdf

A revisionist account of the controversial war examines perspectives on both sides of the conflict while assessing its cultural contradictions and lasting influence, placing particular focus on the roles of McCarthyism and the media.

Author : Charles K. Armstrong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468797

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The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 by Charles K. Armstrong Pdf

North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly understood origins of its system of government. He examines the genesis of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) both as an important yet rarely studied example of a communist state and as part of modern Korean history.North Korea is one of the last redoubts of "unreformed" Marxism-Leninism in the world. Yet it is not a Soviet satellite in the East European manner, nor is its government the result of a local revolution, as in Cuba and Vietnam. Instead, the DPRK represents a unique "indigenization" of Soviet Stalinism, Armstrong finds. The system that formed under the umbrella of the Soviet occupation quickly developed into a nationalist regime as programs initiated from above merged with distinctive local conditions. Armstrong's account is based on long-classified documents captured by U.S. forces during the Korean War. This enormous archive of over 1.6 million pages provides unprecedented insight into the making of the Pyongyang regime and fuels the author's argument that the North Korean state is likely to remain viable for some years to come.

Author : Andrei Lankov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199390038

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The Real North Korea by Andrei Lankov Pdf

In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive

Author : Erik van Ree
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015015471926

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Socialism in One Zone by Erik van Ree Pdf

This is a case study of Soviet foreign policy in the formative years of the Cold War, 1945 to 1947. It concerns Soviet policy in Korea, opening with the military operations in August 1945 which resulted in the occupation of the part of the peninsula north of the 38th parallel by the Red Army. The following month the American occupied the southern half. After a period of tense Soviet-American negotiations on Korean reunification, the United States relinquished the matter to the United Nations in September 1947. The study is divided into three sections which cover: the Soviet war plans for Korea in August 1945 and the Soviet attitude towards a Korean trusteeship; the Soviet power structure in North Korea; and the negotiations on Korean reunification by the Joint Soviet-American Commission in 1946 and 1947.

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Verso
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0860916820

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War and Television by Bruce Cumings Pdf

Television has come to play an ever more decisive role in the preparation and planning of war, as well as in its execution. In War and Television Bruce Cumings carefully explores the history of television's relationship to US warmaking since World War II, up to and including its presentation of the carnage in Kuwait and Iraq. Cumings examines Vietnam, long thought to have been the first television war, but finds that characterization more apt for the Gulf conflict which was fought through, packaged by, and sold to the public on television. At the centre of the book is the extraordinary tale of Cumings's own experience as historical consultant to a Thames Television production, Korea: The Unknown War, and his subsequent trials with the Public Broadcasting System when the film was released for North American distribution.