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Foreign friends : Syngman Rhee, American exceptionalism, and the division of Korea /

The division of Korea in August 1945 was one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the twentieth century. Despite the enormous impact this split has had on international relations from the Cold War to the present, comparatively little has been done to explain the decision. In Foreign...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fields, David P., 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Series:Studies in conflict, diplomacy, and peace.
Kentucky scholarship online.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The American mission comes to Korea
  • Building an American constituency
  • Mr. Rhee goes to Washington : Korea in the debate over the Versailles treaty and the Washington Naval Conference
  • Into and out of the wilderness : the Korean independence movement during the interwar years
  • The about-face: the American mission and the division of Korea.