Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea

Harvard University Press , 2016 xiv, 472 pp. "How Imperial Japan's harsh colonial rule in Korea and Manchuria bequeathed a legacy of both authoritarianism and economic transformation to South Korea." 22 pages of b&w photos, 2 pages of b&w maps. Pale gold cloth spine with tan boards. Gold lettering on spine. Small ink stamp on bottom edge, otherwise a bright… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016. First edition . Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. pp.472

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2016-11-07. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Hardback. New. 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.

Hardback. New. 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.

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