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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
Carter J. Eckert
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Hardcover. For South Koreans, the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times a period of unprecedented economic growth and deepening political oppression. Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of this dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country's long history of militarization, personified in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee. Num Pages: 440 pages, 36 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBW; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 930.
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea's dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country's long history of militarization--a history personified in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee. The first volume of a comprehensive two-part history, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 reveals how the foundations of the dynamic but strongly authoritarian Korean ... Read more
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea's dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country's long history of militarization--a history personified in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee. The first volume of a comprehensive two-part history, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 reveals how the foundations of the dynamic but strongly authoritarian Korean ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
929g
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674659865
SKU
V9780674659865
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About Carter J. Eckert
Carter J. Eckert is Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History at Harvard University.
Reviews for Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
This pathbreaking book contributes to both modern Korean history and Japanese colonial history by exploring the instruction that Park Chung-hee (who went on to lead South Korea from 1961 to 1979) and others of his generation received when they were officer trainees in the Japanese colonial army in the 1940s...The book is not a biography, but it uses Park's early ... Read more