Bruce Cumings | London Korean Links

Selected publications by Bruce Cumings

The Korean War: A History, Modern Library 2011
Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History, WW Norton 2005
North Korea: Another Country, The New Press 2003

Collections that include work by Bruce Cumings

Toward Democracy: South Korean Culture and Society, 1945–1980, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2021
Korea: As Seen by Magnum Photographers, WW Norton 2008
Modern Korean Society: Its Development and Prospect, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2007
Korean Society: Civil Society, democracy and the state, Routledge 2006
War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War, M.E. Sharpe, Routledge 2001
State and Society in Contemporary Korea, Cornell East Asia Series 1994

Bruce Cumings in Cambridge

event date Fri 23 Oct 2009 posted 3 Oct 2009

In the second Ra Yong-yil lecture, Bruce Cumings, author of Korea’s Place in the Sun, comes to Robinson College to talk about North Korea. Details below: “The US and North Korea: Dealing with Irrationality” PROFESSOR BRUCE CUMINGS University of Chicago (USA) The Ra Jong-Yil Lecture in Korean Studies FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER, 2009 UMNEY THEATRE, ROBINSON … [Read More]

Bruce Cumings: Korea’s Place in the Sun

posted 17 Apr 2006 updated 24 Mar 2021 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read

(Norton, 2005) A real page-turner of a history book. I was so gripped that I read it like a novel, and now need to go back and read it as a history book. Gives a very useful overview of pre-20th century history, but focuses on the more recent history, which it reassesses from a perspective … [Read More]