Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History

by Michael E. Robinson

Book Overview

For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey is designed to provide readers with the historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831748
• ISBN13: 9780824831745
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"