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Park Chung Hee and modern Korea : the roots of militarism 1866-1945 / Carter J. Eckert.
Van Pelt Library DS922.35 .E25 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eckert, Carter J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Park, Chung Hee, 1917-1979.
- Park, Chung Hee.
- Militarization--Korea (South)--History.
- Militarization.
- History.
- Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960-1988.
- Korea (South).
- Politics and government.
- Korea (South)--History--1960-1988.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 472 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea's dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country's long history of militarization--a history personified in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Contexts
- Militarizing time: waves of war
- Militarizing minds: new ideas of army and nation
- Militarizing places and persons: academies and cadets
- Part 2. Academy culture and practice
- Politics and status: special favor
- Politics and power: a singular duty
- State and society: revolution, reform, control
- Tactics and spirit: certain victory
- Order and discipline: joyful submission.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674659865
- 0674659864
- OCLC:
- 946975218
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