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Korea's place in the sun
a modern history
By Cumings, Bruce
- ISBN
- 978-0-39304-011-1
- Publisher
- New York : Norton, 1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1997
This culturally infused history begins with the decline of "Old Korea" and the opening of trade in 1860. The author (Ctr. for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern Univ.; Origins of the Korean War, 2 vols., Princeton Univ., 1981 and 1990) shows that even as social systems changed, persistent Korean traits forged historic eve...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
