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"Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily. Kim brings a new narrative to the complex task of exploring the paradoxical nature and effects of Korea's rapid development which maintains that any judgment of Park must consider his achievements in the socio-economic, cultural and political context in which they took place"--Jacket.

A discussion of the relationship between agrarian change & industrialization in the USSR in the final years of the 1920s. It is argued that Joseph Stalin's rapid industrialization was unplanned, the natural outcome of militarization & agrarian policies that forced the peasants into the cities, & not the kind of industrialization appropriate for building a socialist society. Historiographic retrieval methods & critical evaluation are employed to assess the events leading up to the situation existing when Stalin assumed control, & the subsequent collectivization & industrialization processes are traced. It is concluded that Soviet industrialization was a tragedy in every sense, with the defeat of the Nazis the only laudable result. F. Rasmussen

"The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of economic development based on a dichotomy of extractive vs. inclusive political institutions, is highly inadequate in explaining China's rise. This book argues that only a radical reinterpretation of the history of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West (as incorrectly portrayed by the institutional theory) can fully explain China's growth miracle and why the determined rise of China is unstoppable despite its current "backward" financial system and political institutions. Conversely, China's spectacular and rapid transformation from an impoverished agrarian society to a formidable industrial superpower sheds considerable light on the fundamental shortcomings of the institutional theory and mainstream "blackboard" economic models, and provides more-accurate reevaluations of historical episodes such as Africa's enduring poverty trap despite radical political and economic reforms, Latin America's lost decades and frequent debt crises, 19th century Europe's great escape from the Malthusian trap, and the Industrial Revolution itself."--Provided by publisher.