The Korean War in World History
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The Korean War in World History

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Korean War in World History

About this book

The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck's introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war's place within the history of the twentieth century. The Korean War had two very different faces. On one level the conflict was local, growing out of the internal conditions of Korea and fought almost entirely within the confines of a small Asian country located far from Europe. The fighting pitted Korean against Korean in a struggle to determine the balance of political power within the country. Yet the war had a huge impact on the international politics of the Cold War. Combat threatened to extend well beyond the peninsula, potentially igniting another global conflagration and leaving in its wake a much escalated arms race between the Western and Eastern blocs. The dynamics of that division remain today, threatening international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Lloyd Gardner, Chen Jian, Allan R. Millett, Michael Schaller, and Kathryn Weathersby

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Korean People: Missing in Action in the Misunderstood War, 1945–1954
  9. 2. The Soviet Role in the Korean War: The State of Historical Knowledge
  10. 3. In the Name of Revolution: China’s Road to the Korean War Revisited
  11. 4. Korean Borderlands: Imaginary Frontiers of the Cold War
  12. 5. The Korean War: The Economic and Strategic Im on Japan, 1950–1953
  13. Conclusion
  14. Contributors
  15. Index