Rethinking the Korean War : : A New Diplomatic and Strategic History /

Rethinking the Korean War : : A New Diplomatic and Strategic History / / William Stueck.

Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Stueck, William,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2002
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 7 maps. 25 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. ORIGINS
  • CHAPTER 1. The Coming of the Cold War to Korea
  • CHAPTER 2. Syngman Rhee, the Truman Doctrine, and American Policy toward Korea, 1947-1948
  • CHAPTER 3. Why the Korean War, Not the Korean Civil War?
  • PART II. COURSE
  • CHAPTER 4. The Road to Chinese Intervention, July-November 1950
  • CHAPTER 5. Why the War Did Not Expand beyond Korea, November 1950-July 1951
  • CHAPTER 6. Negotiating an Armistice, July 1951-July 1953: Why Did It Take So Long?
  • PART III. BROADER ISSUES
  • CHAPTER 7. The Korean War and the American Relationship with Korea
  • CHAPTER 8.The Korean War as a Challenge to American Democracy
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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