Park Chung Hee and modern Korea : the roots of militarism 1866-1945 /

Park Chung Hee and modern Korea : the roots of militarism 1866-1945 /

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Author / Creator:Eckert, Carter J., author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2016]
Description:xii, 472 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Park, Chung Hee, -- 1917-1979.
Park, Chung Hee, -- 1917-1979.
Militarization -- Korea (South) -- History.
Militarization.
Politics and government.
Korea (South) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1988.
Korea (South) -- History -- 1960-1988.
Korea (South)
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11021619
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ISBN:9780674659865
0674659864
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-458) and index.
Summary:For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea's dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country's long history of militarization--a history personified in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee.--

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