Peasant Protest And Social Change In Colonial Korea (Korean Studies Of The Henry M. Jackson School Of International Studies)

Between 1876 and 1946 Korea opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, and industrialization. Gi-Wook Shin examines how peasants responded to these events with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution in the north and reform in the south. Gi-Wook Shin is director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, as well as holder of the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies. "A work of sterling scholarship - original, thorough, meticulous, sharply focused, cogently reasoned, and precise in expression. A weighty and groundbreaking study." -American Historical Review "Shows beautifully how ordinary people shaped history through their continuous struggles for a better life." -American Journal of Sociology 9780295993805 0295993804 249 BOOK History NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UoWSBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Gi-Wook Shin
• | Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0295993804
• | ISBN-13: 9780295993805