- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: The Free Press (7 Nov 1974)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0029146100
- ISBN-13: 978-0029146101
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
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Surveys and interprets the social and political history of Korea up to the re of King Kojong.
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Organized, comprehensive and fair
29 Feb 2004
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There are not many books on Korean History out there. Most books are English translations of Korean texts. Although, well done, they give a standard, often "canned" interpretation of history and seem to draw from the same original sources, with no changes in interpretation, thus one Korean History book doesn't sound all that different from another. This book was not written by a Korean and translated by some Harvard professor, it was written from scratch by a non-Korean (actually a non-Asian) University of Hawaii professor and it reads and sounds very different from all the other books out there. Henthron discusses and introduces things no one else does and is not constrained by national pride and ethnocenticism. There is nothing wrong with Korean History written by Koreans, but when history is written by an outsider, you get a diverse and refreshing viewpoint. One of the most useful aspects of this book is that it gives a histography chart so a reader can make sense of all the little tribes and kingdoms in early Korean History and how they fit into the overall makeup of the Korean people today.
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