The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979 by Burge, Russell
The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979 by Burge, Russell

The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979

In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid development. By...
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Author: Russell Burge
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Language: English
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The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979 by Burge, Russell

The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979

$74.92
The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979 by Burge, Russell

The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979

$74.92
Author: Russell Burge
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul's shantytowns, Burge historicizes national development as a site of struggle with the urban poor at its center. What would a society of postcolonial abundance look like? Who was this society built for, and how would access to the city that formed its economic center be claimed and defended? These were the questions at stake in the urban struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, an era when authorities found themselves caught between a mandate to create well-disciplined cities and the promise of broad uplift that legitimated their leadership. Utilizing memoirs, interviews, newspapers, journals, photographs, literature, anthropological records, and critical as well as official sources, Burge reconstructs a not-altogether-vanished world and provides historical background of conflicts over urban access and inequality that continue to enrage and resonate to this day.

Author: Russell Burge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.29w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780674304819

About the Author
Burge, Russell: - Russell Burge is Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean History at Indiana University Bloomington.
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