Faculty of Arts


Week 8 w/c 20 September

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 Communist States and the West, Pall Mall Press, London, 1967

Cumings, Bruce, Korea's place in the sun: A modern history, W.W.Norton Publishers, New York, 1997

Fleming, D.F.  (1961) The Crucifixion of Korea, 1945-1954. The Cold War and its Origins, 1917-1960. Volume II. New York: Doubleday, 1961, pp. 589-660

Fontaine, Andre, History of the Cold War: From the Korean War to the Present, Secker and Warburg, London, 1969

Fraser T.G, America and the World since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2002

Graebner, Norman, The Cold War: Ideological Conflict or Power Struggle? , Heath, Boston, 1963

Grinker, Roy Richard, Korea and its futures: Unification and the unfinished war, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998

Lee, Steven Hugh, Outposts of empire: Korea, Vietnam and the origins of the Cold War in Asia, 1949 - 1954, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1995

Myers, Robert John, Korea in the cross currents: A century of struggle and the crisis of reunification, Palgrave, New York, 2001

Rees, David, Korea: the limited war, Macmillan, London, 1964

Rees, David, The age of containment: the Cold War 1945 - 1965, Macmillan, London, 1967

Srivastava, Mahavir Prasad, The Korean Conflict: Search for Unification, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 1982

Tae, Hwan Kwak et al., Korean reunification, new perspectives and approaches, Kyungnam University Press, Seoul, 1984

Yang, Youngja and Gavan McCormack (1977) The United States in Korea. In G. McCormack and J. Gittings (ed) Crisis in Korea, Spokesman Books, Nottingham.


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.

 


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