Book Description
This text provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1909 to the present day, providing an invaluable one-volume resource for all students of modern Korean history.


Book Info
Provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1909 to the present day, providing an invaluable one-volume resource for all students of modern Korean history. Softcover available.


About the Author
Adrian Buzo is a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely on aspects of Korean history, language and culture, including The Guerilla Dynasty: Politics and Leadership in North Korea (Westview: 1999) He was formerly the Executive National Director of National Korean Studies at Melbourne, Australia.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This text provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1909 to the present day. Key features of the book include:Comprehensive coverage of Korean History

Analysis of important contemporary developments

A comparative focus on both North and South Korea

Korea is examined within its regional context

A chronology and suggestions for further reading

This book is an invaluable one-volume resource for all students of modern Korean history.

FROM THE CRITICS

Hagen Koo

With extensive knowledge and shrewd insights, Adrian Buzo has written a lucid and highly informative account of political dynamics on Korean peninsula from the end of the 19th century to the present. Unlike most other books on Korea, Buzo tries to give as balanced a coverage of North and South Koreas as possible and takes the competitive north-south relationships as an organizing theme of his historical narrative. A welcome addition to the still skimpy literature on Korean society and a highly recommendable text for courses on Korea and on contemporary East Asia.

Robert A Scalapino