Research Catalog

Title

Routledge handbook of modern Korean history / edited by Michael J. Seth.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

Seth, Michael J., 1948-

Description

xii, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century when Korea became entangled in the world of modern imperialism and the old social, economic and political order began to change, this handbook brings together cutting-edge scholarship on major themes in Korean History. Contributions by experts in the field cover the late Chŏson and colonial periods. Korea's partition and the diverging paths of North and South Korea.

Series Statement

Routledge handbooks

Uniform Title

Routledge handbooks.

Alternative Title

Handbook of modern Korean history

Subject

• Since 1864
• Korea > History > 1864-1910
• Korea > History > 20th century
• Korea > History > 1945-
• Korea

Genre/Form

• History.
• Handbooks and manuals.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: understanding modern Korean history -- Korea by 1860 -- Competing imperialisms in Korea -- The nation, the people, and the possibilities of the post-national: historiographies of late nineteenth-century Korean reform movements -- Religion 1876-1910 -- The transformation of the Chosŏn economy in the Open Port Period, 1876-1910 -- The 1894 Tonghak Rebellion -- The politics of assimilation: Koreans into Japanese -- Colonial modernity -- Women, gender, and social change in colonial Korea -- Nationalist movements before 1945 -- The division of Korea and the rise of two Koreas, 1945-1948 -- The Korean War and its politics -- North Korean state-making: process and characteristics -- North Korea's chuch'e philosophy -- A dynastic polity in economic stagnation and decline -- The North Korean famine -- North Korea under King Jong II -- Marriage, family, and sexuality in North Korea -- Trade union movements in South Korea since 1945 -- Economic miracle: from post-war reconstruction to post-crisis affluence -- Democratization in South Korea -- Women, gender, and social change in South Korea since 1945 -- The post-developmental state: economic and social changes since 1997 -- Global Korea -- Inter-Korean relations, 1945-2013.

Call Number

DS907.18

ISBN

• 0367581663
• 9780367581664

OCLC

1156989008

Title

Routledge handbook of modern Korean history / edited by Michael J. Seth.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge handbooks

Routledge handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1864

Added Author

Seth, Michael J., 1948- editor.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR DS907.18 .R68 2020