Offspring of Empire : The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 /
Annotation According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. Eckert (Korean history, Harvard U.) challenges the standard view and argu...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[1991]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Annotation According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. Eckert (Korean history, Harvard U.) challenges the standard view and argues that Japanese imperialism, while politically oppressive, was also the catalyst and cradle of modern Korean industrial development. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (416 pages): illustrations |
Premios: | American Historical Association John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History, 1992. |
ISBN: | 9780295805139 |