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By Bruce Cumings (contributor)
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9780812244014 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 6, 2012, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events...read more
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9780679643579 | Modern Library, July 27, 2010, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror.

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9780812978964 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, July 12, 2011), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953.

Miscellaneous:

9780679603788 | Modern Library, July 27, 2010, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship with Europe...read more
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9780300111880 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, November 17, 2009), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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By Bruce Cumings (foreword by), Bruce Fulton (trans) and Ju-Chan Fulton (trans)
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9780824833268 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $35.00

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9780824833978 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $15.00

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An award-winning photographer furnishes a rare, behind-the-scenes visual tour of the reclusive Asian nation, documenting life in North Korea, in the militarized DMZ dividing North and South Korea, and on South Korea's border with the north, along with extended captions and brief essays on the controversial country.
By Bruce Cumings (foreword by) and Mark Edward Harris
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9780811857512 | Chronicle Books Llc, March 8, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An award-winning photographer furnishes a rare, behind-the-scenes visual tour of the reclusive Asian nation, documenting life in North Korea, in the militarized DMZ dividing North and South Korea, and on South Korea's border with the north, along with extended captions and brief essays on the controversial country.

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Argues that the 'axis of evil' label applied by Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address is illusory, challenging current beliefs and fear-mongering practices with historical and political information about each targeted nation. Reprint.
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9781565849044 | New Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Experts on Iran, Syria, and North Korea set the record straight on these three 'evil' countries with hard facts, exploring each country's history and internal politics alongside U.

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9781595580382 | Reprint edition (New Pr, January 1, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Argues that the 'axis of evil' label applied by Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address is illusory, challenging current beliefs and fear-mongering practices with historical and political information about each targeted nation.

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An updated edition covers how such factors as the imperial era, the Cold War, and the economic crisis of the 1990s have shaped modern Korea, discussing the fractured relationship between North and South Korea as well as North Korea's renewed nuclear programs in defiance of the current Bush administration. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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9780393040111 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A narrative chronicle of modern Korea focuses on the country's turbulent twentieth-century history, discussing its 1910 loss of independence, its years under Japanese rule, its division and the Korean War, and its postwar recovery and economic growth

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9780393327021 | Updated edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A narrative chronicle of modern Korea focuses on the country's turbulent twentieth-century history, discussing its 1910 loss of independence, its years under Japanese rule, its division and the Korean War, and its postwar recovery and economic growth.
9780393316810 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1998, cover price $20.60 | About this edition: A narrative chronicle of modern Korea focuses on the country's turbulent twentieth-century history, discussing its 1910 loss of independence, its years under Japanese rule, its division and the Korean War, and its postwar recovery and economic growth

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A leading expert on Korea draws on his extensive knowledge of Korean history and recently declassified government documents to provide a timely and balanced study of North Korea and its vilified leader, Kim John Il, discussing the nation's role in global affairs since the collapse of the USSR, its social programs, human-rights violations, policies, and more. Reprint.
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9781565848733 | New Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A leading expert on Korea draws on his knowledge of Korean history and recently declassified government documents to provide a study of North Korea and its vilified leader, Kim Jong Il.

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9781565849402 | Reprint edition (New Pr, November 30, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A leading expert on Korea draws on his extensive knowledge of Korean history and recently declassified government documents to provide a timely and balanced study of North Korea and its vilified leader, Kim John Il, discussing the nation's role in global affairs since the collapse of the USSR, its social programs, human-rights violations, policies, and more.

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Product Description: The year 2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the armistice that ended the hot war on the Korean peninsula. The Korean War started as a civil conflict and then grew into an all-out superpower war. Whole cities were levelled, factories destroyed, homes torched, farmers uprooted from their fields...read more
By Bruce Cumings (contributor), Patrick Dowdey (editor), Wei Hsin Gui (contributor) and John Kie-Chiang Oh (contributor)
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9780972970402 | Mansfield Freeman Ctr for East, July 31, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The year 2003 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the armistice that ended the hot war on the Korean peninsula.

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Product Description: Distributed for Yuksabipyungsa Press Bruce Cumings maintains in his classic account that the origin of the Korean War must be sought in the five-year period preceding the war, when Korea was dominated by widespread demands for political, economic, and social change...read more
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9788976966124 | Cornell Univ Pr, July 31, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Distributed for Yuksabipyungsa Press Bruce Cumings maintains in his classic account that the origin of the Korean War must be sought in the five-year period preceding the war, when Korea was dominated by widespread demands for political, economic, and social change.
9788976966131 | Cornell Univ Pr, July 31, 2004, cover price $79.50 | About this edition: Distributed for Yuksabipyungsa Press In Volume II of The Origins of the Korean War, Cumings examines the internal political-economic development of the two Korean states and the consequences, for Korea, of Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Product Description: Tracing the course of conflicts throughout Asia in the past century, this groundbreaking volume is the first to explore systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, which routinely exclude their own be
By Utsumi Aiko (contributor), Bruce Cumings (contributor), Richard Falk (contributor), Mark Selden (editor) and Alvin Y. So (editor)
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9780742523906 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 1, 2003, cover price $107.00 | About this edition: Tracing the course of conflicts throughout Asia in the past century, this groundbreaking volume is the first to explore systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism.

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9780742523913 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: If the past hundred years will be remembered as a century of war, Asia is surely central to that story.

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Product Description: In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780822329244 | Duke Univ Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia.

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Product Description: In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780822322764 | Duke Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia.

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Product Description: This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic boom...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Glenn Alcalay (contributor), Xiangming Chen (contributor), Bruce Cumings (contributor) and Arif Dirlik (contributor)
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9780847684694 | 2 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 1, 1998), cover price $53.95 | About this edition: This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.

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Product Description: In Divided Korea: United Future? Cumings examines the two Koreas, stressing the importance of historical legacies, the Japanese colonial period and subsequent liberation, the Soviet and American presence, division and war. He analyzes the political and economic systems of North and South Korea, noting the achievements of both radically different regimes...read more
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9780871241641 | Foreign Policy Assn, June 1, 1995, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: In Divided Korea: United Future?

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Product Description: This work studies television reporting of the US at war since World War II, including detailed coverage of television's role in the Gulf. Cumings offers insights into the everyday operations of the media and assesses the possibilities of mobilizing them for political purposes...read more
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9780860913740 | Verso Books, September 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This work studies television reporting of the US at war since World War II, including detailed coverage of television's role in the Gulf.

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9780860916826 | Reissue edition (Verso Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: This work studies television reporting of the US at war since World War II, including detailed coverage of television's role in the Gulf.

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Product Description: In continuing his argument that the Korean War was civil and revolutionary in character, Bruce Cumings examines the internal political-economic development of the two Korean states and the consequences, for Korea, of Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union...read more
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9780691078434, titled "The Origins of the Korean War: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950" | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $125.00

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9780691025384 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $37.50 | About this edition: In continuing his argument that the Korean War was civil and revolutionary in character, Bruce Cumings examines the internal political-economic development of the two Korean states and the consequences, for Korea, of Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Offers a challenging reassessment of the Korean War, tracing its roots from a civil war and its internal struggles, and discussing the question of germ warfare, the nature of the regimes in the North and South and other topics
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9780394553665 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a challenging reassessment of the Korean War, tracing its roots from a civil war and its internal struggles, and discussing the question of germ warfare, the nature of the regimes in the North and South and other topics

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9780691101132 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $34.50

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