The Park Chung Hee Era

Informationen zum Autor Byung-Kook Kim is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. Ezra F. Vogel (1930-2020) is the author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and of the international bestseller Japan as Number One . He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Medero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics at Harvard University. Klappentext In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume examines the transformation as a study in the politics of modernization, contextualizing many historical ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory toward sustainable economic growth. Zusammenfassung In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume examines the transformation as a study in the politics of modernization, contextualizing many historical ambiguities in South Korea’s trajectory toward sustainable economic growth.

Product details

• Authors: et al, Byung Kook Kim, Byung-Kook Kim, Byung-Kook Vogel Kim, Ezra F. Vogel
• Assisted by: Byung-Kook Kim (Editor), Kim Byung-Kook (Editor), Ezra F. Vogel (Editor), Vogel Ezra F. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072312
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07231-2
• No. of pages: 744
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 238 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, South Korea, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)