North Korea Through the Looking Glass
ISBN: 9780815764359 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty-five years after its founding at the dawn of the cold war, North Korea remains a land of illusions. Isolated and anachronistic, the country and its culture seem to be dominated exclusively by the official ideology of Juche, which emphasizes national self-reliance, independence, and worship of the supreme leader, General Kim Jong Il. Yet this socialist utopian ideal is pursued with the calculations of international power politics. Kim has transformed North Korea into a militarized state, whose nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and continued threat to South Korea have raised alarm... Fifty-five years after its founding at the dawn of the cold war, North Korea remains a land of illusions. Isolated and anachronistic, the country a... |
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172,99 zł |
Shultz: Generals and Scholars Paper
ISBN: 9780824823245 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Generals and Scholars is the first work in English to examine fully military rule during the Koryo. Although it lasted for only a century, the period was one of dynamic change--a time of institutional development, social transformation, and the reassertion of the civil service examination and Confucian ideology coupled with the flowering of Son (Zen) Buddhism. (When confronted with fundamental matters of rule, however, Ch'oe leaders frequently opted for the status quo and in the end aligned with many traditional civil elites to preserve their power.) The traditional tension between civilians...
Generals and Scholars is the first work in English to examine fully military rule during the Koryo. Although it lasted for only a century, the period ...
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174,73 zł |
Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising
ISBN: 9780824825430 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kwangju Uprising--Korea's Tiananmen--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju Uprising have lived on, assuming symbolic importance in the Korean democracy movement, underlying the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and shaping the nation's transition to a civil society. Nonetheless it remains a contested event, the... The Kwangju Uprising--Korea's Tiananmen--is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a pe... |
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125,55 zł |
Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History
ISBN: 9780824831745 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey is designed to provide readers with the historical essentials upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region. Beginning with a... For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming... |
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158,37 zł |
Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956
ISBN: 9780824832070 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. North Korea remains the most mysterious of all Communist countries. The acute shortage of available sources has made it a difficult subject of scholarship. Through his access to Soviet archival material made available only a decade ago, contemporary North Korean press accounts, and personal interviews, Andrei Lankov presents for the first time a detailed look at one of the turning points in North Korean history: the country's unsuccessful attempts to de-Stalinize in the mid-1950s. He demonstrates that, contrary to common perception, North Korea was not a realm of undisturbed Stalinism; Kim... North Korea remains the most mysterious of all Communist countries. The acute shortage of available sources has made it a difficult subject of scho... |
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125,55 zł |
North Korean Paradoxes: Circumstances Costs & Consequences
ISBN: 9780833037626 / Angielski / Miękka / 71 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzes economic, political, and security issues associated with Korean unification. Considers how the North Korean system might unravel, leading to possible unification, and what the capital costs of unification would be under differing circumstances and assumptions. Compares points of relevance and nonrelevance between the German experience with unification in the 1990s and what might occur in Korea.
Analyzes economic, political, and security issues associated with Korean unification. Considers how the North Korean system might unravel, leading to ...
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103,46 zł |
Liberating Korea ?
ISBN: 9780974636603 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,94 zł |
The Partition of Korea After World War II: A Global History
ISBN: 9781403969828 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sixty years after Korea's partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English and Korean, including new archival evidence from Moscow, this book seeks to provide this understanding. Taking into account not only the policies of the Soviet Union and the United States but also the roles played by the Koreans themselves, Jongsoo Lee untangles the complex dynamics of the Korean partition, placing this partition in the context of modern world history and the emerging Cold War....
Sixty years after Korea's partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a...
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193,19 zł |
For the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of the Country
ISBN: 9781410208194 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains speeches and writings between 1948 and 1975 of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on the subject of reunification of Korea. His thoughts offer interesting insights into the communist view of reunification on the Korean Peninsula.
This book contains speeches and writings between 1948 and 1975 of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on the subject of reunification of Korea. His though...
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91,92 zł |
Korea: The 38th Parallel North
ISBN: 9781410212795 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,72 zł |
A History of Korea
ISBN: 9781425709488 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,28 zł |
Republic of South Korea 1957-1959: The Challenge to the People After Occupation and War
ISBN: 9781425983123 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,47 zł |
Republic of South Korea 1957-1959: The Challenge to the People After Occupation and War
ISBN: 9781425983130 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,79 zł |
The Diplomacy of War: The Case of Korea
ISBN: 9781551642383 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long after the last shot was fired, the effects of the Korean War still linger.
Long after the last shot was fired, the effects of the Korean War still linger.
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125,82 zł |
The Diplomacy of War: The Case of Korea
ISBN: 9781551642390 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1945, following the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered and ended its brutal 50-year occupation of Korea. But it left the country in utter disarray, with no functioning government to begin the difficult job of rebuilding. In 1948, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to split the country in half. Each side aggressively sought reunification; the eruption of civil war was only a matter of time. In 1950, North Korea launched an offensive, that began a three-year war. But for two of the three years that the war was under way, both sides were actually trying to...
In 1945, following the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered and ended its brutal 50-year occupation of Korea. But it left the co...
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268,05 zł |
Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong
ISBN: 9781553954613 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong is a guidebook for exploring the new and exciting destination for exciting and innovative cinema: South Korea. It is the first book of its kind, covering this emerging cinematic powerhouse, which has been likened to Hong Kong, in an easy-to-read and leisure-focused fashion, bringing all the sought-after information on Korean cinema into one convenient package.
Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong is a guidebook for exploring the new and exciting destination for exciting and innovative cinema: South Korea. It is ...
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104,70 zł |
Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas Since 1989
ISBN: 9781842777435 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success story. In Bipolar Orders, Hyung Gu Lynn analyzes the processes driving both countries since the 1980s.
North Korea has experienced severe economic deterioration and increasing international isolation, while South Korea has undergone democratization and witnessed the emergence of a vibrant consumer culture. Paradoxically, this growing gap in ideologies and material standards has led to improved relations between the two... North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capit...
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181,84 zł |
Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea
ISBN: 9781861893352 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The defiant dictatorship of North Korea and the thriving democracy of South Korea may appear starkly different, but they share a complex and often misunderstood history that is ably recounted in Everlasting Flower.
Keith Pratttraverses the ancient landscapes of the Koreas, from the kingdoms of Old Choson and Wiman Choson to the present-day 38th Parallel division. The book s engaging narrative details the wars, ruling dynasties, Chinese and Japanese imperialism, and controversial historical events such as the abuses of the Japanese occupation. Everlasting Flower... The defiant dictatorship of North Korea and the thriving democracy of South Korea may appear starkly different, but they share a complex and often mis...
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109,14 zł |
A History of Contemporary Korea
ISBN: 9781905246052 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in English, this important new contribution from a distinguished Korean historian on the history of twentieth-century Korea is divided into two parts: first, the Japanese colonial period, including detailed accounts of the anti Japanese independence movements, followed by the liberation of Korea, the Korean War and political developments up to the late 1980s. Acknowledgement is also made of the work of North Korean scholars.
Now available in English, this important new contribution from a distinguished Korean historian on the history of twentieth-century Korea is divided i...
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427,60 zł |
North Korea and the Timeless Dilemma of Aid: A Study of Humanitarian Action in Famines
ISBN: 9783825875312 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aid for famine in North Korea was, and continues to be, accompanied by controversy and dispute. Based upon the North Korean case and other famine aid missions in the past, this book analyzes the timeless dilemma of providing aid to totalitarian regimes and puts a number of recent debates surrounding today's humanitarianism into perspective.
Aid for famine in North Korea was, and continues to be, accompanied by controversy and dispute. Based upon the North Korean case and other famine aid ...
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136,49 zł |