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A history of Korea : an episodic narrative /

A concise history of Korea, exploring Korean civilization from ancient times to modern history.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hwang, Kyung Moon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Edition:2nd edition.
Series:Palgrave essential histories.
Subjects:
Korea > History.
Korea > Civilization.
Table of Contents:
  • Goguryeo and Ancient Korea
  • Queen Seondeok and Silla's unification of Korea
  • Unified Silla
  • Founding of the Goryeo dynasty
  • Religion and regionalism in the Goryeo order
  • The Mongol overlord period
  • Goryeo-Joseon Transition
  • Confucianism and the family in the early Joseon era
  • The great invasions, 1592-1636
  • Ideology, family, and nationhood in the mid-Joseon era
  • Intellectual opening in the late eighteenth century
  • Popular culture in the late Joseon era
  • Nineteenth-century unrest
  • 1894, a fateful year
  • The great Korean empire
  • The Japanese takeover, 1904-18
  • The long 1920s
  • Nation, cuture, and everyday life in the late colonial period
  • Wartime mobilization, 1938-45
  • The liberation period, 1945-50
  • The Korean War
  • Early North Korea
  • 1960s South Korea
  • Culture and politics in 1970s South Korea
  • Monumental life in North Korea
  • South Korean democratization
  • South Korea in the twenty-first century.