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Congratulations to Professor Carter Eckert on his new book!

October 8, 2016

Announcing a new book:
“Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945”
Published by Harvard University Press (for website link, click here).

Description: For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J....

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