Author: Bonnie Oh
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This collection, edited by Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies Bonnie B. C. Oh, helps to fill a considerable gap in the English-language literature on Korea and the United States. Although much has been written about Korea in the Japanese colonial and World War II period and, of course, even more has been made available on the Korean War years, little has been written on the interim period when the United States attempted to rule Korea through a trusteeship. Focused on the occupation and reconstruction of Japan after World War II, the U.S. government conceived a trusteeship for Korea, which would free up American forces to concentrate on Japan. It seemed the perfect solution: it would allow the time needed for Koreans to prepare themselves for independence; it would maintain U.S. involvement and interests in Korea; and it would create the mechanism that could sustain international cooperation. Flawless as it might have seemed, the trusteeship—and its implementer, the American Military Government—did not heed the Korean people's heightened expectation and passion for independence. And it did not handle well the new Soviet-style government it found in place in the north of the peninsula. All together, the various missteps and miscalculations of the American Military Government—and Washington—contributed to the new war to come. Oh and her contributors shed light on this previously unexamained period, and make significant use of Korean-language sources in doing so. Essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers involved with modern Korean Studies, the Cold War, and U.S. military history.
Korea Under the American Military Government, 1945-1948
Author: Bonnie Oh
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This collection, edited by Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies Bonnie B. C. Oh, helps to fill a considerable gap in the English-language literature on Korea and the United States. Although much has been written about Korea in the Japanese colonial and World War II period and, of course, even more has been made available on the Korean War years, little has been written on the interim period when the United States attempted to rule Korea through a trusteeship. Focused on the occupation and reconstruction of Japan after World War II, the U.S. government conceived a trusteeship for Korea, which would free up American forces to concentrate on Japan. It seemed the perfect solution: it would allow the time needed for Koreans to prepare themselves for independence; it would maintain U.S. involvement and interests in Korea; and it would create the mechanism that could sustain international cooperation. Flawless as it might have seemed, the trusteeship—and its implementer, the American Military Government—did not heed the Korean people's heightened expectation and passion for independence. And it did not handle well the new Soviet-style government it found in place in the north of the peninsula. All together, the various missteps and miscalculations of the American Military Government—and Washington—contributed to the new war to come. Oh and her contributors shed light on this previously unexamained period, and make significant use of Korean-language sources in doing so. Essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers involved with modern Korean Studies, the Cold War, and U.S. military history.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This collection, edited by Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies Bonnie B. C. Oh, helps to fill a considerable gap in the English-language literature on Korea and the United States. Although much has been written about Korea in the Japanese colonial and World War II period and, of course, even more has been made available on the Korean War years, little has been written on the interim period when the United States attempted to rule Korea through a trusteeship. Focused on the occupation and reconstruction of Japan after World War II, the U.S. government conceived a trusteeship for Korea, which would free up American forces to concentrate on Japan. It seemed the perfect solution: it would allow the time needed for Koreans to prepare themselves for independence; it would maintain U.S. involvement and interests in Korea; and it would create the mechanism that could sustain international cooperation. Flawless as it might have seemed, the trusteeship—and its implementer, the American Military Government—did not heed the Korean people's heightened expectation and passion for independence. And it did not handle well the new Soviet-style government it found in place in the north of the peninsula. All together, the various missteps and miscalculations of the American Military Government—and Washington—contributed to the new war to come. Oh and her contributors shed light on this previously unexamained period, and make significant use of Korean-language sources in doing so. Essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers involved with modern Korean Studies, the Cold War, and U.S. military history.
The United States Military Government in Korea, 1945-1948
Author: Han Mu Kang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Typescript (photocopy)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Typescript (photocopy)
Korea, 1945 to 1948
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Korea, 1945 to 1948
Korean Government in the Making: American Policy in Korea, 1945-1948
Author: Herman Christensen (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Korea, 1945 to 1948
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Public Affairs
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
American Military Government in Korea
Author: Edward Grant Meade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Educational Reorganization in South Korea Under the United States Army Military Government, 1945-1948
Author: Byung Hun Nam
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Military Government in the Ryukyu Islands, 1945-1950
Author: Arnold G. Fisch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Military government on Okinawa from the first stages of planning until the transition toward a civil administration.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Military government on Okinawa from the first stages of planning until the transition toward a civil administration.
Curricular Reform in Korea During the American Military Government, 1945-1948
Author: Won Hyung Choe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description