The promised Republic : developmental society and the making of modern Seoul, 1961-1979 / Russell Burge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burge, Russell, 1985- Author.

Contributor:

Harvard University. Asia Center, publisher.

Harvard University. Press, distributor.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/7ab51126-5348-38cb-d8fb-2385125aef2f 484.

Harvard East Asian monograph series ; 484

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Korea (South)--Seoul--20th century.

Urbanization.

Korea (South)--History--1960-1988.

Korea (South).

Seoul (Korea)--Social conditions--20th century.

Seoul (Korea).

Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960-1988.

Seoul (Korea)--History--20th century.

Urbanization--History.

Korea (South)--Seoul.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xxiv, 329 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

monochrome

polychrome

illustration

map

Distribution:

Cambridge ; London : Harvard University Press, 2026.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center, 2026.

Language Note:

English; words and phrases in Korean.

Summary:

"In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul's shantytowns, Burge historicizes national development as a site of struggle with the urban poor at its center. What would a society of postcolonial abundance look like? Who was this society built for, and how would access to the city that formed its economic center be claimed and defended? These were the questions at stake in the urban struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, an era when authorities found themselves caught between a mandate to create well-disciplined cities and the promise of broad uplift that legitimated their leadership. Utilizing memoirs, interviews, newspapers, journals, photographs, literature, anthropological records, and all manner of critical as well as official sources, Burge reconstructs a not-altogether-vanished world and provides historical background to conflicts over urban access and inequality that continue to enrage and resonate to this today."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Figures, Maps, and Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Editorial Conventions

A Note on Geographic Terms

Political Timeline of South Korea

Introduction

The Postcolonial Moment: Land, Liberation, Seoul

License to Build: Discipline, Amnesty, and the 1967 Elections

Destination Kwangju: Resettlement and the 1971 Elections

The City and the Shadow: State Housing and Inequality in Seoul

Capital Gains: Urban Redevelopment in Seoul

Conclusion: The Promised Republic

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780674304819

0674304810

OCLC:

1530783878

Publisher Number:

CIPO000385578