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Bruce Cumings

Biography

Bruce Cumings

Bruce Cumings is chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago and the author of KOREA'S PLACE IN THE SUN. He divides his time between Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Chicago.

Bruce Cumings

Books by Bruce Cumings

by Bruce Cumings - Current Affairs, History, Nonfiction

Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered 20th century," and this updated edition of KOREA'S PLACE IN THE SUN brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive movements forward are tempered by frustrating steps backward.