Reviews
This book provides an in-depth look at the economy of the Korean Peninsula. As the author states, the difficulty level is set at a graduate level. However, as a non-specialist, I had no major difficulties reading it (though I did have to put in the effort to look up some terms). It is profound. It was an opportunity to redefine everything we vaguely knew or assumed to be "just right" based on facts. It was also a time to realize just how little I knew about history. It is not simply an economic
I bought this book after seeing Professor Lee Young-hoon frequently mentioned in Hiroshi Miyajima's work. I was astonished while reading it. It far surpasses the achievements von Glahn made in Chinese history. If Professor Lee had researched Western European history, he would likely have been in the same league as M. Bloch or F. Braudel. This book is a must-read for specialists in social history or Chinese history as well. I read it in disbelief, as my preconceived notions about Korean history
A comprehensive historical approach to the Korean economy is absolutely necessary, and this book fulfills that requirement. However, I simply cannot understand why there is such a shortage of books on the economic history of Korea in academia...
I came to know the author after listening to a lecture on slaves on YouTube, which led me to purchase this book. I need to quickly break free from my narrow-minded perception of our history.
Lee Young-hoon: Korean Economic History 1: The Historical Development of the Korean People
This is Volume I of *Korean Economic History* by Professor Lee Young-hoon of Seoul National University, a two-volume work that describes the history of human economic life on the Korean Peninsula from its inception to the present. The author organizes Korean economic history by dividing it into the First Era (3rd century BC–7th century AD), the Second Era (8th–14th centuries), the Third Era (15th–19th centuries), and the Fourth Era (20th–21st centuries). The indicators used to distinguish these eras are the familial, social, and national forms of human existence. Simply put, the question is how humans, who lived in semi-underground pit huts belonging to specific groups around the turn of the millennium, evolved through what processes into the highly individualistic Koreans of today. Volume I covers the First to Third Eras, that is, from the 3rd century BC to the 19th century, while Volume II covers the Fourth Era, that is, the 20th–21st centuries. This book presents a new paradigm for Korean economic history by breaking away from the schematic framework of ancient medieval modern and explaining the entire flow of Korean history as a faithful causal relationship of facts.
Korean title: 한국 경제사 1: 한국인의 역사적 전개
Korean author: 이영훈
Korean publisher: 일조각
ISBN-13: 9788933707234
Reviews
This book provides an in-depth look at the economy of the Korean Peninsula. As the author states, the difficulty level is set at a graduate level. However, as a non-specialist, I had no major difficulties reading it (though I did have to put in the effort to look up some terms). It is profound. It was an opportunity to redefine everything we vaguely knew or assumed to be "just right" based on facts. It was also a time to realize just how little I knew about history. It is not simply an economic
I bought this book after seeing Professor Lee Young-hoon frequently mentioned in Hiroshi Miyajima's work. I was astonished while reading it. It far surpasses the achievements von Glahn made in Chinese history. If Professor Lee had researched Western European history, he would likely have been in the same league as M. Bloch or F. Braudel. This book is a must-read for specialists in social history or Chinese history as well. I read it in disbelief, as my preconceived notions about Korean history
A comprehensive historical approach to the Korean economy is absolutely necessary, and this book fulfills that requirement. However, I simply cannot understand why there is such a shortage of books on the economic history of Korea in academia...
I came to know the author after listening to a lecture on slaves on YouTube, which led me to purchase this book. I need to quickly break free from my narrow-minded perception of our history.
