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The history of Korea / Djun Kil Kim.
Van Pelt Library DS907.18 .K5247 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Chun-gil, 1940- author.
- Series:
- Greenwood histories of the modern nations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korea--History.
- Korea.
- History.
- Korea (South)--History.
- Korea (South).
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 278 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, [2014]
- Summary:
- Every school and public library should update its resources with these engagingly written and succinct narrative histories of the world's nations covering prehistoric times through today. Based on the most recent scholarship, each history provides a chronological narrative examining the political, cultural, philosophical, and religious continuities in the featured nation's long, rich history in an exploration of how its people came to be who they are today. Each volume includes a chronological narrative history, timeline of events, biographical sketches of key figures, glossary, and bibliographic essay. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Early history
- Korean identity
- Tradition
- Modernization
- Nationhood lost
- House divided
- Globalization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610695817
- 161069581X
- OCLC:
- 870211319
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