Korea 1945 To 1948

Author : Bonnie Oh
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Korea Under the American Military Government, 1945-1948 written by Bonnie Oh and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, edited by Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies Bonnie B. C. Oh, helps to fill a considerable gap in the English-language literature on Korea and the United States. Although much has been written about Korea in the Japanese colonial and World War II period and, of course, even more has been made available on the Korean War years, little has been written on the interim period when the United States attempted to rule Korea through a trusteeship. Focused on the occupation and reconstruction of Japan after World War II, the U.S. government conceived a trusteeship for Korea, which would free up American forces to concentrate on Japan. It seemed the perfect solution: it would allow the time needed for Koreans to prepare themselves for independence; it would maintain U.S. involvement and interests in Korea; and it would create the mechanism that could sustain international cooperation. Flawless as it might have seemed, the trusteeship—and its implementer, the American Military Government—did not heed the Korean people's heightened expectation and passion for independence. And it did not handle well the new Soviet-style government it found in place in the north of the peninsula. All together, the various missteps and miscalculations of the American Military Government—and Washington—contributed to the new war to come. Oh and her contributors shed light on this previously unexamained period, and make significant use of Korean-language sources in doing so. Essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers involved with modern Korean Studies, the Cold War, and U.S. military history.

Author : United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Korea, 1945 to 1948 written by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Korea, 1945 to 1948 written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Han Mu Kang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Military Government in Korea, 1945-1948 written by Han Mu Kang and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript (photocopy)

Author : United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Korea, 1945 to 1948 written by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1969 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allan R. Millett
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700621091
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War for Korea, 1945-1950 written by Allan R. Millett and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century’s bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and had roots in the political history of Korea under Japanese rule, 1910–1945. The first in a new two-volume history of the Korean War, Millett’s study offers the most comprehensive account of its causes and early military operations. Millett traces the war’s origins to the post-liberation conflict between two revolutionary movements, the Marxist-Leninists and the Nationalist-capitalists. With the U.S.-Soviet partition of Korea following World War II, each movement, now with foreign patrons, asserted its right to govern the peninsula, leading directly to the guerrilla warfare and terrorism in which more than 30,000 Koreans died. Millett argues that this civil strife, fought mostly in the South, was not so much the cause of the Korean War as its actual beginning. Millett describes two revolutions locked in irreconcilable conflict, offering an even-handed treatment of both Communists and capitalists-nationalists. Neither movement was a model of democracy. He includes Korean, Chinese, and Russian perspectives on this era, provides the most complete account of the formation of the South Korean army, and offers new interpretations of the U.S. occupation of Korea, 1945–1948. Millett’s history redefines the initial phase of the war in Asian terms. His book shows how both internal forces and international pressures converged to create the Korean War, a conflict that still shapes the politics of Asia.

Author : Jongsoo James Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983011
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Partition of Korea After World War II written by Jongsoo James Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on multi-archival research in Korean, Russian and English, this book looks at the complexity and changes in Stalin's policy toward Korea for answers about the division of Korea in 1945 and the failure of reunification between 1945 and 1948. Lee argues that the trusteeship decision is key to the division's origins and permanency.

Author : Raymond Keith Rossiter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean Problem in International Relations, 1945-1948 written by Raymond Keith Rossiter and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hyung-Kook Kim
Publisher : University Press of Amer
ISBN 13 : 9780819198686
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Division of Korea and the Alliance Making Process written by Hyung-Kook Kim and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim skillfully argues that the Korean War was a consequence of the historical process that emerged in the summer of 1945, escalated in the period of occupation (1945-1948), and finally exploded in the summer of 1950 through a vicious circle of internalization of an external power struggle by domestic political groups and the internalization of the Korean politics by the external powers.

Author : Gregg Brazinsky
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458723178
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation Building in South Korea written by Gregg Brazinsky and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazinsky explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. He contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled South Korea's stunning transformation. Expanding the framework of traditional diplomatic history, Brazinsky examines not only state-to-state relations, but also the social and cultural interactions between Americans and South Koreans. He shows how Koreans adapted, resisted, and transformed American influence and promoted socioeconomic change that suited their own aspirations. Ultimately, Brazinsky argues, Koreans' capacity to tailor American institutions and ideas to their own purposes was the most important factor in the making of a democratic South Korea.