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Summary:

"For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Korea's dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the country's long history of militarization--a history personified in South Korea's paramount leader, Park Chung Hee. The first volume of a comprehensive two-part history, Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 reveals how the foundations of the dynamic but strongly authoritarian Korean state that emerged under Park were laid during the period of Japanese occupation. As a cadet in the Manchurian Military Academy, Park and his fellow officers absorbed the Imperial Japanese Army's ethos of victory at all costs and absolute obedience to authority. Japanese military culture decisively shaped Korea's postwar generation of military leaders. When Park seized power in an army coup in 1961, he brought this training and mentality to bear on the project of Korean modernization. Korean society under Park exuded a distinctively martial character, Eckert shows. Its hallmarks included the belief that the army should intervene in politics in times of crisis; that a central authority should plan and monitor the country's economic system; that the Korean people's "can do" spirit would allow them to overcome any challenge; and that the state should maintain a strong disciplinary presence in society, reserving the right to use violence to maintain order."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Militarizing time: waves of war
• Militarizing minds: new ideas of army and nation
• Militarizing places and persons: academies and cadets
• Politics and status: special favor
• Politics and power: a singular duty
• State and society: revolution, reform, control
• Tactics and spirit: certain victory
• Order and discipline: joyful submission.

Author/Creator:

Eckert, Carter J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Park Chung Hee and modern Korea: the roots of militarism 1866-1945 [by Eckert, C.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Park Chung Hee and modern Korea [by Eckert, C.J.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts : London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2016] — ISBN 9780674659865; LCCN 2016015172; OCLC Number 946975218)

Subjects:

Park, Chung Hee, 1917-1979

Militarization — Korea (South) — History

Korea (South) — Politics and government — 1960-1988

Korea (South) — History — 1960-1988

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 472 pages) : illustrations, maps

Call Numbers:

DS922.35 .E25 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780674973237 (electronic bk.)
0674973232 (electronic bk.)
0674973216
9780674973213
9780674659865 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
0674659864 (alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

961185121