Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Dawn of the Korean Nation; The Prehistoric Age; The Origins of the Korean People; Old Choson; Confederated Kingdoms; 2. The Period of the Three Kingdoms (57 bc-ad 676); The Growth of Koguryo; The Rise and Decline of Paekche; The Rise and Growth of Silla; The Rise and Fall of Kaya; Silla's Unification; Political and Social Structure of the Three Kingdoms; Culture of the Three Kingdoms; The Three Kingdoms and Japan; A ""History War"" with China; 3. Parhae, Unified Silla, and the Later Three Kingdoms (676-936) The Rise and Growth of ParhaeThe Government and Society of Unified Silla; Unified Silla's Flourishing Culture; The Later Three Kingdoms; 4. The First Half of the Koryo Period (918-1170); Forging a Centralized Government; Ruling Structure; Economic and Social Structure; Foreign Relations in the Early Koryo Period; Development of Aristocratic Culture; 5. The Second Half of the Koryo Period (1170-1392); Disturbances in Koryo Society; Koryo and the Mongols; The Downfall of Koryo; 6. The First Half of the Choson Period (1392-1650); The Establishment of a New Order Reorganization of the Ruling StructureSocial Structure and Economic Life; Territorial Expansion and Foreign Relations; Culture in Early Choson; The Growth of the Neo- Confucian Literati; The Struggle with the Japanese and Manchus; 7. The Second Half of the Choson Period (1650-1910); The Revival of the Dynasty; Cultural Rehabilitation; The Dynasty in Disturbance; Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century; Policies of the Taewon'gun; The Open- Door Policy and the Reform Movement; The Tonghak Peasant War and the Kabo Reform; The Downfall of Choson 8. The Period of Japanese Colonial Rule (1910-1945)Government by the Bayonet and the March First Movement; Japan's Shift to the ""Cultural Policy"" and Korean Nationalism; Japan's Tightening Grip on Korea and Korean Nationalism; Japan's Revisionist History of Korea; The Allied Powers' Wartime Policy on Korea; 9. Liberation, Division, and War (1945-1953); From Occupation to a Separate Government in Southern Korea; Economic and Social Problems in Southern Korea; Northern Korea after Liberation; The Two Koreas before the Korean War; The Korean War 10. The Period of Postwar Reconstruction (1953-1971)The Establishment of Authoritarian Rule in South Korea; The South Korean Economy and Society; South Korea's Relations with the United States and Japan; The Rise of the Juche State in North Korea; The North Korean Economy; North Korea's Foreign Relations; 11. Reversal of Fortunes (1972-1992); From Autocratic Rule to Democracy in South Korea; The Prospering South Korean Economy; Militaristic South Korean Society; South Korea's Foreign Relations; The Totalitarian State in North Korea; The North Korean Economy; North Korea's Foreign Relations North-South Korean Relations | 
