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  • The Great Enterprise

    Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea

    by Henry Em ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific
    In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em shows, was foundational to modern Korean politics in that it served a pedagogical function for Japanese and Western imperialisms, as well as for ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Korea

    Canada's Forgotten War

    by John Melady ...
    The Korean War (1950-53) forms a little-known but exciting part of Canada's military history. The heroism and sacrifice of Canadians who fought in this conflict as part of the United Nations force has often been ignored. In this lively, anecdotal book, John Melady combines archival material and interviews with many Korean veterans. The result is a vivid, intensely human account of the war from its ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • North Korea Confidential

    Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors

    by Daniel Tudor, James Pearson ...
    ****Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.**North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–1951

    by I. F. Stone ...
    Series Book 10 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "A great journalist" raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings ( The Baltimore Sun)."Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins." —From the author's prefaceIn 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New History of Korean Civilization

    by Chai-Shin Yu ...
    Throughout its 4,000-year history, Korea has created a vibrant and unique culture. Unfortunately, many believe it developed solely due to Chinas influence, thus leaving no room for an independent history and culture. This is simply wrong.The New History of Korean Civilization explores the existence of a distinctive Korean culture established by the Korean people and separate from its Chinese and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Meltdown

    The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

    by Mike Chinoy ...
    When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea's nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea possesses as many as ten nuclear warheads, and possibly the means to provide nuclear material to rogue states or terrorist groups. How did this happen?Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with key players in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Under the Black Umbrella

    Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945

    by Hildi Kang ...
    In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence of those who endured under the "black umbrella" of Japanese colonial rule.Existing descriptions of the colonial period tend to focus on extremes: ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea

    by Kim Youngna ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 1Modern and Contemporary Art in KoreaThis book discusses the issues of tradition, modernity, and identity of modern and contemporary art in Korea. Major aspects of the book include Korea’s modernism during the Japanese colonial period, the spread of modernism after the Korean War and art informel, the monochrome art movement, the so-called minjung (people’s) art, revival of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • War in Korea

    The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent

    by Marguerite Higgins ...
    Not since Ernie Pyle have the American people taken any reporter to their hearts as they have Marguerite Higgins—the photogenic young war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. This brilliant woman reporter, greatly admired by the fighting men, has dodged bullets with troops on the line, has asked neither favor nor privilege for herself, and has been commended publicly for bravery in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail

    Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

    by Dr. Kenneth M. Swope, Ph.D ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • THE TRUE FORCE OF NORTH KOREA: Military, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Ballistic Missiles, Including Reaction of the U.S. Government to the Korean Military Threat

    by Andrew Scobell, John M. Sanford, Daniel A. Pinkston, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Congress, Donald Trump ...
    North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. Whether measured in terms of the total number of personnel in uniform, numbers of special operations soldiers, the size of its submarine fleet, quantity of ballistic missiles in its ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus