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A history of Korea

About the Books

Title Sub
Korea historical research association
Author
-
Co-Author
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Translator
Joshua Van Lieu
Publisher
Saffron Books
Published Year
2005
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
Classification

KDC구분 > History

Original Title
한국역사
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Hangugyeoksa
ISBN
1872843867, 1872843875
Page
359
Volume
-
About the Original Work
  • 한국역사
  • Author : Marija Grbić Ana
  • Published Year : -
  • English Title : A history of Korea: Korea historical research association
More About the Original Work
Descriptions
  • English(English)

"A History of Korea" is a product of a particular moment in South Korean social and political history, published in the aftermath of the popular resistance movements of the late 1980s that brought an end to military dictatorship and ushered in direct elections for the presidency of South Korea. The historians of the Korean Historical Research Association, who compiled the volume, were not dispassionate recorders of those events but rather active participants in the democracy movements of the time, who understood their scholarship as a contribution to popular resistance against military rule and as a tool for the democratisation and unification of Korea. These historians were writing against previous understandings of Korean history that they perceived as legitimising political and economic oppression from both Korean elites and foreign powers. As they stood in opposition to previous histories and their political underpinnings, they proposed their own visions of past, present, and future Korean societies. In so doing, they helped move the popular struggle for the democratisation of South Korea towards the centre of the national narrative. "A History of Korea" is a manifesto, a conscious call for a particular interpretation of Korean history for deployment in the democratisation, unification, and class liberation movements of the period.

 

Source: http://www.amazon.com/History-Korea-Saffron-Library/dp/1872843867

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