The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best schol

This book is intended to meet the needs of the general reader and is widely used in universities and college courses. Major aspects of traditional, as well as m

This book is a historical text that covers Korean history from its foundation to the modern era. It especially deals with pre-modern societies of Korea in detai

Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy w