Korea: A Very Short Introduction
Michael J. Seth
January 2020
ISBN: 9780198830771
160 pages
Paperback
174x111mm
In Stock
Price: £8.99Korea, long in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, is now the object of considerable interest. This book focuses on answering several historical questions: what does it mean to be Korean? How did this nation evolve into today's sharply contrasting societies? And how does Korea fit into the larger narrative of world history?
Description
Korea, long in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, is now the object of considerable interest. This book focuses on answering several historical questions: what does it mean to be Korean? How did this nation evolve into today's sharply contrasting societies? And how does Korea fit into the larger narrative of world history?
- Offers a short and accessible history of Korea from earliest times to the present
- Places Korea within the context of East Asian and global history
- Considers what it means to be Korean, and analyses how this nation evolved, in a single lifetime, into today's sharply contrasting societies
- Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide
About the Author(s)
Michael J. Seth, James Madison University
Michael J. Seth is a professor of East Asian and world history at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He has lived and worked in South Korea and is the author of Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2002) and North Korea: A History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is also the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History (Routledge, 2016).
Table of Contents
- Chronology
List of illustrations
Introduction
1:Creating a peninsular kingdom
2:A Confucian society
3:From kingdom to colony
4:From colony to competing states
5:Competing states, diverging societies
6:Globalizing south, inward north
Further reading
Index
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