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The Park Chung Hee Era : The Transformation of South Korea.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (753 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061064
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Park Chung Hee EraDDC classification:
  • 951.95043092
LOC classification:
  • DS922
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One - Born in a Crisis -- 1. The May Sixteenth Military Coup -- 2. Taming and Tamed by the United States -- 3. State Building: The Military Junta's Path to Modernity through Administrative Reforms -- Part Two - Politics -- 4. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences -- 5. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power -- 6. The Armed Forces -- 7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park -- 8. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled -- Part Three - Economy and Society -- 9. The Chaebol -- 10. The Automobile Industry -- 11. Pohang Iron &amp -- Steel Company -- 13. The Chaeya -- 12. The Countryside -- Part Four - International Relations -- 14. The Vietnam War: South Korea's Search for National Security -- 15. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership -- 16. The Security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 1974-1979 -- 17. The Search for Deterrence: Park's Nuclear Option -- Part Five - Comparative Perspective -- 18. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee -- 19. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos -- 20. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico -- 21. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan -- Conclusion: The Post-Park Era -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index of Persons.
Summary: In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume examines the transformation as a study in the politics of modernization, contextualizing many historical ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory toward sustainable economic growth.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One - Born in a Crisis -- 1. The May Sixteenth Military Coup -- 2. Taming and Tamed by the United States -- 3. State Building: The Military Junta's Path to Modernity through Administrative Reforms -- Part Two - Politics -- 4. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences -- 5. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power -- 6. The Armed Forces -- 7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park -- 8. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled -- Part Three - Economy and Society -- 9. The Chaebol -- 10. The Automobile Industry -- 11. Pohang Iron &amp -- Steel Company -- 13. The Chaeya -- 12. The Countryside -- Part Four - International Relations -- 14. The Vietnam War: South Korea's Search for National Security -- 15. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership -- 16. The Security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 1974-1979 -- 17. The Search for Deterrence: Park's Nuclear Option -- Part Five - Comparative Perspective -- 18. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee -- 19. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos -- 20. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico -- 21. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan -- Conclusion: The Post-Park Era -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index of Persons.

In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume examines the transformation as a study in the politics of modernization, contextualizing many historical ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory toward sustainable economic growth.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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