Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea

by Gi-Wook Shin

Book Overview

The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, industrialization, and eventually postcolonial revolutionary movements. Gi-Wook Shin examines how peasants responded to these events, and to their own economic and political circumstances, with protests that shaped the course of postwar revolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295975482
• ISBN13: 9780295975481
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"