Great Enterprise - Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea

Informationen zum Autor Henry H. Em is Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Underwood International College, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He is coeditor of the Korean-language volume Entangled Modernities: Crossings between Korean and Japanese Studies. Klappentext Henry H. Em is Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Underwood International College, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He is coeditor of the Korean-language volume Entangled Modernities: Crossings between Korean and Japanese Studies. Zusammenfassung Surveying histories of Korea written during the twentieth century! Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of the country's past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Sovereignty 1. Sovereignty and Imperialism 21 2. Imperialism and Nationalism 53 Part II. History Writing 3. Nationalizing Korea's Past 87 4. Universalizing Korea's Past 114 5. Divided Sovereignty and South Korean Historiography 138 Appendix 1. Names and Vital Dates 161 Appendix 2. Character List 165 Notes 171 Bibliography 229 Index 247

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Henry Em, Henry H. Em, EM HENRY H
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.03.2013
• EAN: 9780822353577
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5357-7
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Korea