A new history of Korea
Ki-Baik Lee ; translated by Edward W. Wagner with Edward J. Shultz.
- Seoul Korea : Ilchokak, Publishers, c1984.
- 474 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Includes Index and Bibliography
Communal societies of prehistoric times -- Walled-town states and confederated kingdoms -- Aristocratic societies under monarchical rule -- Fashioning of an authoritarian monarchy -- Age of powerful gentry families -- Hereditary aristocratic order of Koryŏ -- Rule by the military -- Emergence of the literati -- Creation of a Yangban society -- Rise of the neo-Confucian literati -- Emergence of landed farmers and wholesale merchants -- Instability of the Yangban status system and the outbreak of popular uprisings -- Growth of the forces of enlightenment -- Nationalist stirrings and imperialist aggression -- Development of the nationalist movement -- Beginnings of democracy.
Discusses Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960.