The Partition of Korea After World War II
A Global History
Lee, Jongsoo
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BOOK SUMMARY
Sixty years after Koreas partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English and Korean, including new archival evidence from Mosco
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Sixty years after Korea’s partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English and Korean, including new archival evidence from Moscow, this book seeks to provide this understanding. Taking into account not only the policies of the Soviet Union and the United States but also the roles played by the Koreans themselves, Jongsoo Lee untangles the complex dynamics of the Korean partition, placing this partition in the context of modern world history and the emerging Cold War. Comparing Korea with Germany, Austria, Finland and elsewhere after World War II, Lee suggests possible alternative outcomes to Korean partition, thus shedding light on Korea’s present predicament as she faces the challenges of reunification.
AUTHOR BIO
Jongsoo James Lee is Assistant Professor, Department of History & Political Science, at Manchester College, an Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University, and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.. A historian and a political scientist with broad research interests, Lee has also taught at Dartmouth College and Bowdoin College.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Jongsoo Lee's The Partition of Korea after World War II is an outstanding achievement. Lee provides a comprehensive and complex account of Korea's partition using an astonishingly impressive array of American, Russian, and Korean archival sources. His thorough and subtle analysis has set a new and very high standard for the subject. Many diplomatic historians aspire to write history from a multinational and multiarchival perspective but fall short: Jongsoo Lee, however, has not. His book is properly subtitled A Global History."
--John Earl Haynes, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403969825
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403969828
Dewey Decimal: 951.904/1
Library of Congress: 2005054895
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 220
