Faculty of Arts


Week 7 w/c 13 September

The Korean War 1950-53 (1)

Lecture:

Thursday 15 September: The Dividing of Korea

Lecturer:

Greg Bankoff

Seminar topic:

Thursday 15 September & Wednesday 21 September:

The Cold War in Korea was a direct consequence of World War 2

The origins of the Korean War were as much a product of history as politics

Required Readings:

Stuek, William (2002) ‘The Coming of the Cold War to Korea.’ Rethinking the Korean War A New Diplomatic and Strategic History. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, pp.11-38. ISBN 0691088535

Lowe, Peter (1990) ‘The Approach of Confrontation in Korea’. The Origins of the Korean War. Longman, London and New York pp 43-71. ISBN 0582251478

Recommended Readings:

Cotton, James and Neary, Ian, The Korean War in History, Humanities Press International, New Jersey, 1989

Donaldson, Gary, America at war since 1945: Politics and Diplomacy in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War, Praeger, Westport, 1996

Gittings, John (1977) The War Before Vietnam. In G. McCormack and J. Gittings (ed) Crisis in Korea, Spokesman Books, Nottingham.

Halliday, John (1977) The Political Background. In G. McCormack and J. Gittings (ed) Crisis in Korea, Spokesman Books, Nottingham.

Hastings, Max, The Korean War, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987

Hickey, Michael, The Korean War: The West confronts Communism, J. Murray Publishers, London, 1999

Kaufman, Burton Ira, The Korean Conflict, Greenwood Press, Westport, 1999

Kim, Chull Baum and Matray, James, Korea and the Cold War: Division, Destruction and Disarmament, Regina Books, California, 1993

Kim, Chom-gon, The Korean War: The first comprehensive account of the historical background and development of the Korean War, Kwangmyong Publishers, Seoul, 1973

Knox, Donald, The Korean War: An Oral History, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1985

Lone, Stewart, Korea since 1850, Longman, Melbourne, 1993

MacDonald, C., Korea: the war before Vietnam, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1986

Spanier, John, The Truman-MacArthur controversy and the Korean War, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1959

Stokesbury, James, A short history of the Korean War, W. Morrow Publishers, New York, 1988

Stueck, William Whitney, The Korean War: An International History, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1995

Whelan, Richard, Drawing the line: the Korean War, 1950 - 1953, Little, Brown and Co. Boston, 1990

Links:

Examining the Korean War.

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/stanley/home.html
Korea Divided.

http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit15.htm

The United States Enters the Korean Conflict.

http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/korea/home.html

Truman Library Archives – Korean War.

http://www.whistlestop.org/study_collections/korea/large/

 


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