Macmillan Essential Histories / A History of Korea

List of Chronologies and Maps.- Brief Chronology.- Maps.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Note on Romanization.- 1. Goguryeo and Ancient Korea.- 2. Queen Seondeok and Silla's Unification of Korea .- 3. The Unified Silla Kingdom.- 4. Founding of the Goryeo Dynasty.- 5. Religion and Regionalism in the Goryeo Order.- 6. The Mongol Overlord Period.- 7. Goryeo-Joseon Transition.- 8. Confucianism and the Family in the Early Joseon Era.- 9. The Great Invasions, 1592-1636.- 10. Ideology, Family, and Nationhood in the Mid-Joseon Era.- 11. Intellectual Opening in the Late Eighteenth Century.- 12. Popular Culture in the Late Joseon Era.- 13. Nineteenth-Century Unrest.- 14. 1894, A Fateful Year.- 15. The Great Korean Empire.- 16. The Japanese Takeover, 1904-1918.- 17. The Long 1920s.- 18. Nation, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Late Colonial Period.- 19. Wartime Mobilization, 1938-45.- 20. The Liberation Period, 1945-50.- 21. The Korean War^rth Korea.- 23. 1960s South Korea.- 24. Culture and Politics in 1970s South Korea.- 25. Monumental Life in North Korea .- 26. South Korean Democratization .- 27. South Korea in the 21st Century.- Further Readings.- Index.

Kyung Moon Hwang is Professor of Korean Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. A graduate of Oberlin College and Harvard University, his research covers the modern transformation of Korea, with a focus on state and society in the early 20th century and history disputes in the late 20th century.