Faculty of Arts
The Korean War 1950-53 (2)
Lecture:
Tuesday 22 September: The Korean War 1950-53
Lecturer:
Greg Bankoff
Seminar topic:
Thursday 22 September & Wednesday 28 September:
What was the Korean War about for Koreans?
The Korean War was fought more by Americans and Chinese than by Koreans?
Required Readings:
Buzo, Adrain (2004) ‘The Supreme Disaster’. The Making of Modern Korea. Routledge, London and New York, pp.71-91. ISBN 0415237491
Cumins, Bruce (1990). ‘The Political Character of the War: People’s Committees and White Pajamas.’ The Origins of the Korean War. Volume II. The Roaring of the Cataract. Princeton UP, Princeton, pp.666-707. ISBN 0691078432
Recommended Readings:
Bromke, Adam, The
Cumings,
Fleming, D.F. (1961) The Crucifixion of
Fontaine, Andre, History of the Cold War: From the Korean War to the Present, Secker and Warburg,
Fraser T.G,
Graebner,
Grinker, Roy Richard,
Lee, Steven Hugh, Outposts of empire:
Myers, Robert John,
Rees,
Rees, David, The age of containment: the Cold War 1945 - 1965, Macmillan,
Srivastava, Mahavir Prasad, The Korean Conflict: Search for Unification, Prentice Hall of India,
Tae, Hwan Kwak et al., Korean reunification, new perspectives and approaches, Kyungnam University Press, Seoul, 1984
Yang, Youngja and Gavan McCormack (1977) The
Links:
A Chronology of the war.
http://www.vfw.org/magazine/jun00/12.shtml
‘Examining the Korean War’, with extensive background links including oral history, maps etc.
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/stanley/home.html
DMOZ: This site lists an extensive summary of diverse links related to the Korean War.
http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Topic/War/Twentieth_Century/Korean_War/
On-line resources for Korean War.
http://history.searchbeat.com/koreanwar.htm
Spotlight: Korean War.
http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/korean.html
A North Korean eyewitness remembers
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit.htm.