| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

The Korean War in World History. Ed. by William Stueck. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. x, 203 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2306-2.)

Commemoration of the fifty-year anniversary of the start of the Korean War in 2000 resulted in several conferences where scholars presented papers summarizing current thinking about this important conflict. This volume is the product of a meeting H. W. Brands organized and convened in October at Texas A&M University. William Stueck, Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia, deserves praise for carefully editing the five essays in this anthology and for contributing an excellent synthetic introduction and provocative conclusion. "The Korean War had two faces," he writes; "one grew out of the internal conditions of Korea extending back to the period of Japanese rule," but the war "engaged Koreans with outsiders as well, and it had a huge impact on the international politics of the cold war" (p. 1). This useful book offers insights on the "hotly contested" question of the exact role "of internal and external forces in causing the war" (p. 2).

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