Bruce Cumings. The Origins of the Korean War.

CONTENTS

Volume I

Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947

Preface

PART I

SETTING

1 – Class and State in Colonial Korea

2 – Lord and Peasant in Colonial Korea

3 – August to September 1945: Revolution and Reaction

4 – Crucible of Policy: Contending Forces in American

PART II

POLITICS AT THE CENTER, 1945-1947

5 – Forging a New Order: The Entry of American Forces and Policies Toward the Bureaucracy, the Police, and the Military

6 – Toward a Separate Southern Government

7 – Internationalist Policy and Nationalist Logic: Hardening at the Center in 1946

PART III

KOREANS AND AMERICANS IN THE PROVINCES, 1945-1947

8 – An Overview of the People’s Committees in the Provinces

9 – The Fate of the Committees in the Provinces

10 – The Autumn Harvest Uprisings

11 – The North Wind

12 – Conclusions: Liberation Denied

Appendixes

Bibliography

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Volume II

The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950

Preface

1 – Introduction: Recollections on Method and a Theory of American Foreign Policy

PART I

AMERICA

2 – Containment and Internationalism

3 – Rollback and Nationalism

4 – Predestination for the Labyrinth: Spies and Speculators

5 – Rollback Percolates in the Bureaucracy

PART II

KOREA

6 – The Southern System

7 – The Resistance to the Southern System

8 – The Guerrilla Conflict

9 – The Northern System

10 – The Soviets and North Korea

11 – North Korea’s China Connection

PART III

OVERTURES TO JUNE 1950

12 – Decent Interval: American Withdrawal, the Border Fighting, and the Guerrilla Suppression

13 – “The Speech”: Achesonian Deterrence at the Press Club

14 – North Korea on the Eve of the War

15 – South Korea on the Eve of the War

16 – Telltale Taiwan

17 – A Quiet Weekend in June: Tokyo, Moscow, and Washington on the Eve of the War

18 – Who Started the Korean War? Three Mosaics

PART IV

EPILOGUE

19 – The War for Containment

20 – The Political Character of the War: People’s Committees and White Pajamas

21 – The War for Rollback

22 – Conclusion: The Setting Sun

Bibliography