Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy

by Gregg Brazinsky

Book Overview

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. Brazinsky contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807831204
• ISBN13: 9780807831205
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"