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  • The Park Chung Hee Era

    The Transformation of South Korea

    by Chang Jae Baik, Jorge I. Domínguez, Yong-Sup Han, Sung Gul Hong, Paul D. Hutchcroft, Hyug Baeg Im, Byung-joon Jun, Eun Mee Kim, Hyung-A Kim, Joo Hong Kim, Taehyun Kim, Yong-Jick Kim, Jung-Hoon Lee, Min Yong Lee, Nae-Young Lee, Young Jo Lee, Seok-jin Lew, Chung-in Moon, Gregory W. Noble, Gil-Sung Park, Myung-Lim Park, Sang-young Rhyu ...
    In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited ... Read more

    ₹2,728.15

  • The Korean War

    by Max Hastings ...
    The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings’ compelling account of the forgotten war.'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' – GuardianOn 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower ... Read more

    ₹764.27

  • The Border - A Journey Around Russia

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

    by Erika Fatland ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**"A hauntingly ... Read more

    ₹391.16

  • Nothing to Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

    Real Lives In North Korea

    by Barbara Demick ...
    North Korea is Orwell"s 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country"s great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended, and Nothing to Envy - winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non ... Read more

    ₹1,116.39

  • Four Ruined Realms

    The action-packed sequel to adventure fantasy Five Broken Blades featuring more lies, more betrayal and even more danger

    by Mai Corland ...
    Series Book 2 - The Broken Blades
    FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF VERITY GUILDThe lies are bigger and the plots more treacherous when your favourite backstabbers return in the mind-blowing sequel to Mai Corland's bestselling Korean-inspired adventure fantasy, Five Broken Blades'If you've yet to discover this thrilling multi-POV fantasy series, you're missing out' CULTUREFLYThe King of Yusan may b... ... Read more

    ₹609.22

  • The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

    by JaHyun Kim Haboush ...
    The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but ... Read more

    ₹2,909.16

  • A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600

    The Writings of Kang Hang

    Edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush, Kenneth Robinson ...
    Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592–1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human civilization, war, and the enemy's culture and society, acting in effect as a spy for his king. Arranged and printed in the seventeenth century as Kanyangnok, or The Record of a Shepherd, Kang's writings were ... Read more

    ₹2,909.16

  • Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea

    by Thomas Duvernay ...
    In 1871, five ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet headed into Korean waters, intent on establishing relations with Korea, a country that had shunned the outside world for centuries. However, as the country had been in conflict with Western countries just five years earlier, it was going to be no easy task but one full of dangers.The Koreans, who were steadfast and unwilling to compromise the ... Read more

    ₹1,476.61

  • North Korea

    State of Paranoia

    by Paul French ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the ... Read more

    ₹809.11

  • The Rebel and the Kingdom

    The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

    by Bradley Hope ...
    'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna FifieldHOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A GLOBAL FUGITIVE?In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing ... Read more

    ₹541.61

  • Polarizing Dreams

    Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea

    by Dr. Pil Ho Kim, Allison Alexy ...
    Series series Asia Pop!
    Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epicenter of Hallyu, the Korean Wave. It is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured pop culture industries since the 1980s and fueled the aspirations of Seoul’s middle class, producing in ... Read more

    ₹2,727.32

  • Crisis in a Divided Korea

    A Chronology and Reference Guide

    by James I. Matray ...
    This book provides scholars and students examining Korea's place in modern world politics with an invaluable resource for understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula.Why is Korea still divided into two nations? How does the decades-old tension between North Korea and South Korea affect all of Asia as well as influence several of the world's ... Read more

    ₹7,332.86

  • Rewriting Revolution

    Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

    by Immanuel Kim ...
    North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric vestige of the Cold War, a “rogue” nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights and expanding its nuclear weapons program at the expense of a faltering ... Read more

    ₹6,547.57

  • Canada and the Korean War

    Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict

    Edited by Andrew Burtch, Tim Cook ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History
    Korea was the first hot war of the Cold War. It was also Canada’s most significant military engagement of the twentieth century following the two world wars. Canada and the Korean War gathers leading scholars to explore the key themes and battles of a seminal yet understudied conflict.Canada had little stake and less interest in Korea before 1950, but the risk the conflict posed to the fragile ... Read more

    ₹3,147.40

  • Spaces of Possibility

    In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan

    Edited by Clark W. Sorensen, Andrea Gevurtz Arai ...
    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some of these spaces involve the ambiguous longings and aesthetic refigurings of the past in the present, the social possibilities that emerge out of the seemingly impossible new ... Read more

    ₹4,092.23

  • The US-DPRK Peace Treaty: A Commentary

    by Eric Yong Joong Lee, Ridoan Karim ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book delivers an in-depth analysis of the US-DPRK Peace Treaty which will be concluded as a final result of the Korean Peninsula peace process that is currently ongoing. Since North Korea launched its nuclear weapons development program in the early 1990s, the Korean peninsula has become a critical point of global politics along with the Sino-American (G2) hegemonic competition. The US-DPRK ... Read more

    ₹6,721.27

  • 비극한국사와 연관된 세계사

    by Arestos Philoctetes ...
    한국의 비극적인 역사는 세계사와 깊이 연관되어 있으며, 그 관계는 지정학적 위치, 국제적 힘의 균형, 그리고 세계사적 사건들이 한국에 미친 영향을 통해 이해할 수 있습니다. 아래에서 한국 비극 역사와 세계사 간의 관계를 주요 관점에서 살펴봅니다. 한국 비극의 역사는 세계사와 밀접하게 얽혀 있습니다. 한반도의 비극적 사건들은 단순히 국내의 문제로 국한되지 않고, 동아시아와 세계의 정치·경제·군사적 변동 속에서 발생했습니다. 이는 한국이 세계사의 흐름 속에서 어떤 위치에 있었는지를 이해하는 데 중요한 통찰을 제공합니다.역사는 단순히 과거를 배우는 것이 아니라, 우리 자신과 사회, 그리고 성장 가능성을 더 잘 이해하기 위한 도구입니다.역사를 통해 우리는 과거의 성공과 실패에서 배울 수 있습니다. 이를 통해 같은 ... Read more

    ₹599.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeds of Control

    Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

    by David Fedman, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century KoreaJapanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting ... Read more

    ₹2,728.15

  • The Mask That Remembers

    by Jack Han ...
    In Korea, a mask is never just a mask. For over a thousand years, the sacred tal masks have been Korea's most dangerous truth-tellers, its most powerful healers, and its bridge between the living and the dead. Carved from lightning-struck trees and worn by shamans, fools, and rebels, these wooden faces have laughed away plagues, mocked tyrants, and given voice to restless ghosts—all while the ... Read more

    ₹1,284.65

  • Unexpected Alliances

    Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea

    by Young-a Park ...
    Since 1999, South Korean films have dominated roughly 40 to 60 percent of the Korean domestic box-office, matching or even surpassing Hollywood films in popularity. Why is this, and how did it come about? In Unexpected Alliances, Young-a Park seeks to answer these questions by exploring the cultural and institutional roots of the Korean film industry's phenomenal success in the context of Korea's ... Read more

    ₹5,001.65

  • Privileged but Powerless

    How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime's Greatest Weakness

    by Jieun Baek ...
    A compelling examination of North Korea’s elites, their hidden discontent, and the role they may play in shaping the regime’s futureJieun Baek’s second book on North Korea is a deeply researched and sharply analytical account of the grievances harbored by the country’s elite. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with escapees from Pyongyang, Baek examines how members of this ... Read more

    ₹3,455.74

  • Millennial North Korea

    Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown tremendously in just over a decade, with over 7 million registered as of 2022. This expansion took ... Read more

    ₹2,546.31

  • Korean Folk Tales Part 2 (Illustrated)

    by Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, James S. Gale ...
    Series Book 2 - Korean Folk Tales (Illustrated)
    To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.An old manuscript copy of Im Bang's stories came into the hands of the translator, and he gives them now ... Read more

    ₹339.88

  • 平和憲法をめぐる理想と現実

    by トーマス パウロ ...
    理論と実践をめぐる問題は、今日まで、国際政治において、きわめて重要な問題のひとつであった。理論を探求するものからすれば、現実の実務家（Practioners）は、あまりにも俗物的であり、愚かに見えるのに対し、現実に対処する実務家の立場から、学者(Sholars)はあまりにも、観念的であり、無責任にみえる。したがって、往々にして、双方が相手を非難、批判する傾向がつよかった。戦後日本の政治において、このことが、端的にあらわれたのが、戦後日本の総理大臣をつとめた吉田茂と、東京大学総長の南原繁の対立であった。この対立は、単に二人の、個人的次元の対立にとどまらず、その後の日本の進路において、きわめて大きな影響をもたらした。 ... Read more

    ₹99.00 or Free with Kobo Plus