A History of Korea

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Goguryeo and Ancient Korea -- Queen Seondeok and Silla's Unification of Korea -- The Maturation and Decline of Unified Silla -- Elements of Goryeo's Founding -- Religion and Regionalism in the Goryeo Order -- Survival and Adaptation in the Mongol Overlord Period -- Competing Views of the Goryeo-Joseon Transition -- Confucianism and the Family in the Early Joseon Era -- Surviving the Great Invasions, 1592-1636 -- Ideology, Family, and Nationhood in the Mid-Joseon Era -- Intellectual Opening in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Popular Culture in the Late Joseon Era -- Nineteenth-Century Unrest -- 1894, A Fateful Year -- Rise and Fall of the Great Korean Empire -- Responses to the Japanese Takeover, 1904-1918 -- Stirrings of Social Change in the Long 1920s -- Nation, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Late Colonial Period -- Wrenching Trials of Wartime Mobilization, 1938-45 -- Promises and Perils of the Liberation Period, 1945-50 -- Multiple Sides of the Korean War -- History and Autonomy in Early North Korea -- Striving for Revolution in 1960s South Korea -- Culture and Politics in 1970s South Korea -- Monumental Life in North Korea -- South Korea's Extended Democratization --South Korean Renewal in the Early Twenty-First Century -- Epilogue: Historical Reckoning in the Two Koreas, 2010-2020.