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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Language: en
Pages: 648
Pages: 648
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Cornell
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Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-12 - Publisher: Modern Library
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. Bu
Language: en
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-09 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the fu
Language: en
Pages: 511
Pages: 511
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
For South Koreans, the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and deepening political oppression