Description
Book SynopsisThis book contends that the long history of America's interaction with Korea started with the signing of the Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation in 1882, and with the establishment of the Seward-Shufeldt Line. William Seward and Robert Shufeldt shared the same vision of achieving their American goal by opening Korea and extending the Seward-Shufeldt Line from Alaska to link it with the Philippines and the Samoan Islands, thus completing a perfect perimeter for the American era of the Pacific and for its dominance in the Asian market. Initiating diplomatic and trading relations with Korea was Commodore Shufeldt's finishing touch on the plan for achieving American hegemony in the coming 20th century. In turn, the decline of Chinese sphere of influence over the Korean Peninsula and the fall of Russian power in the region, with the consequential rise of Japanese power there, which led to a change from the SS Line to the Roosevelts' Theodore-Franklin Line, the colonization o
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Origins of the Korean Question and the Consequences of the Korean War
Chapter Two:Encounter of Isolationist Joseon and Expansionist America
Chapter Three: The Two Korean Wars
Chapter Four: North Korean Quagmire: The Last Phase of U.S. Encounter?
Chapter Five: Upshots of Encounters
Chapter Six: The Corean Question Revisited
