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According to Wikipedia, Bruce Cumings is an American historian of East Asia, professor, lecturer and author. He is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History, and the former chair of the history department at the University of Chicago. He specializes in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations.

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The origins and development of the Northeast Asian political economy: industrial sectors, product cycles, and political consequences (1984) (591)
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1997) (393)
A short review (1983) (331)
The Origins of the Korean War (1981) (277)
Liberation and the emergence of separate regimes, 1945-1947 (1982) (164)
The Korean War: A History (2010) (134)
Boundary displacement: Area studies and international studies during and after the cold war (1997) (120)
North Korea: Another Country (2003) (99)
The Origins of the Korean War, Volume II: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950 (1992) (86)
Parallax visions : making sense of American-East Asian relations (1999) (68)
The Korean crisis and the end of ‘late’ development (1998) (68)
Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (2009) (61)
Korea: The Unknown War (1988) (55)
The two Koreas (1984) (51)
War and Television (1992) (43)
“Revising Postrevisionism,” or, The Poverty of Theory in Diplomatic History (1993) (36)
Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran, And Syria (2004) (31)
The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina (1870-1940).Martin J. Murray (1983) (30)
Still the American Century (1999) (28)
Parallax Visions (2020) (27)
Child of conflict : the Korean-American relationship, 1943-1953 (1984) (27)
Decision-Making and the Korean War@@@The Origins of the Korean War, Vol.2: The Roaring of the Cataract.@@@A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks. (1992) (27)
The roaring of the cataract, 1947-1950 (1990) (22)
Corporatism in North Korea (1982) (22)
The End of the Cold War: The Wicked Witch of the West is Dead. Long Live the Wicked Witch of the East (1992) (18)
Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War (2020) (15)
Civil society in West and East (2002) (14)
The next in line (2003) (14)
The Origins of the Korean War. Volume I. Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-47. Volume II, The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-50. (1992) (14)
Interest and Ideology in the Study of Agrarian Politics (1981) (13)
Rimspeak; or, The Discourse of the “Pacific Rim” (2021) (13)
The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism in Korea (2020) (12)
On the Strategy and Morality of American Nuclear Policy in Korea, 1950 to the Present (The Korean War and Japan) (1998) (12)
COLONIAL FORMATIONS AND DEFORMATIONS : Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam (2004) (11)
Chapter Three. Webs with No Spiders, Spiders with No Webs: The Genealogy of the Developmental State (2019) (9)
Spring Thaw for Korea's Cold War? (1992) (8)
Occurrence at Nog Ŭn-ri Bridge: An Inquiry into the History and Memory of a Civil War (2001) (8)
Is America an Imperial Power (2003) (8)
Japanese Colonialism in Korea: A Comparative Perspective (1997) (8)
Divided Korea: United Future? (1995) (8)
State Building in Korea: Continuity and Crisis (2005) (7)
The Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Policy (1979) (7)
An Open Letter to the APSA Leadership and Members (2000) (7)
In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War (2014) (6)
Why Memory Lingers in East Asia (2007) (5)
8. Korean – American Relations: A Century of Contact and Thirty-Five Years of Intimacy (1983) (5)
Why Did So Many Influential Americans Think North Korea Would Collapse (2013) (5)
The North Korea Problem: Dealing with Irrationality (2009) (5)
11 The Korean War What Is It that We Are Remembering to Forget? (2007) (5)
“Global Realm With No Limit, Global Realm With No Name” (1993) (5)
Epilogue to "(De)Memorializing the Korean War: A Critical Intervention" (2015) (4)
Rapprochement in Postwar History: Implications for North Korea (2010) (4)
The Hidden History of the Korean War: 1950–1951 (1969) (4)
Getting North Korea wrong (2015) (4)
North Korea: The Sequel (2003) (4)
American Orientalism at War in Korea and the United States (2013) (3)
1. The Asian Crisis, Democracy, and the End of "Late" Development (2019) (3)
Dominion from Sea to Sea (2017) (3)
Reflections on Schurmann's theory of the state (1976) (3)
The Deng Xiaoping Era (1997) (3)
The American Way of Going to War: Mexico (1846) to Iraq (2003) (2007) (3)
Where the Cold War Never Ends (1997) (3)
On the History and Practice of Unilateralism in East Asia: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same (2008) (3)
Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies During and After the Cold War (2012) (3)
Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: Japan in British/American Hegemony, 1900–1950 (1993) (3)
Old and new Korean wars (1994) (2)
China Hand: An Autobiography (2012) (2)
Democracy and Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience (1995) (2)
Political Participation in Liberated Korea: Mobilization and Revolt in the Kyŏngsang Provinces, 1945-1950 (2011) (2)
The Obama “Pivot” to Asia in a Historical Context of American Hegemony (2016) (2)
America in the World: “Revising Postrevisionism,” Or, The Poverty of Theory in Diplomatic History (1996) (2)
Biting the Hand That Feeds You: Why the “Intelligence Function” of American Foundation Support for Area Studies Remains Hidden in Plain Sight (2014) (2)
6. The Corporate State in North Korea (2019) (2)
The World Shakes China (2012) (1)
The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace (2018) (1)
Obama, Trump and North Korea (2020) (1)
The Two Koreas. Foreign Policy Association Headline Series, No. 269. (1984) (1)
Divided Korea: United Future? Headline Series No. 306. (1995) (1)
Chapter Seventeen _ A QUIET WEEKEND IN JUNE: TOKYO, MOSCOW, AND WASHINGTON ON THE EVE OF THE WAR (2003) (1)
The Origins of the Korean War. Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947.@@@Korea. The Untold Story of the War. (1983) (1)
Postscript: Response to my friends and critics (1997) (1)
Imagining the Korean War (2017) (1)
Korea: As Seen by Magnum Photographers (2008) (1)
The Kims' Three Bodies: Communism and Dynastic Succession in North Korea (2012) (1)
Toward a Comprehensive Settlement of the Korea Problem (1999) (1)
The Security Of Korea (1983) (1)
What Is a Pacific Century—and How Will We Know When It Begins? (1994) (1)
AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER (2016) (0)
Chapter Five _ ROLLBACK PERCOLATES IN THE BUREAUCRACY (2003) (0)
The sources of North Korean conduct (2018) (0)
Kennan, Containment, Conciliation (1995) (0)
2. The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles, and Political Consequences (2019) (0)
Chapter Twelve _ DECENT INTERVAL: AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL, THE BORDER FIGHTING, AND THE GUERRILLA SUPPRESSION (2003) (0)
Tribute to Alan Wolfe (1999) (0)
The Korean War: (2007) (0)
South Korea (1986) (0)
America in the World: Commentaries (1996) (0)
Trump, Kim, and an Uncanny Diplomatic Opening (2018) (0)
Pacific Ascendancy: Or, A Non-Atlanticist View of the American Position in the World (2011) (0)
Dominion From Sea to Sea: America's Pacific Ascendancy (2012) (0)
Chapter Seven _ THE RESISTANCE TO THE SOUTHERN SYSTEM (2003) (0)
8. The Assumptions Did It (2011) (0)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2021) (0)
Violet Ashes: A Tribute to Chris Marker (2015) (0)
South Korea in Crisis: Danger or Opportunity? (2012) (0)
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman (2016) (0)
Chapter One _ CLASS AND STATE IN COLONIAL KOREA (2003) (0)
High Technology and Ideology: America's Japan Mythology (1983) (0)
War Crimes and Historical Memory: The United Nations Occupation of North Korea in 1950 (2002) (0)
The Korean Peninsula in the Context of China's 'Rise': A Set of Problems and Some Modest Steps toward Resolving Them (2007) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
Chapter Seven _ INTERNATIONALIST POLICY AND NATIONALIST LOGIC: HARDENING AT THE CENTER IN 1946 (2003) (0)
Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: American Mythology and East Asian Reality (2012) (0)
JAS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1990) (0)
Dilemmas in United States-Korean relations (1980) (0)
Don't count on it (1999) (0)
Reviews (2001) (0)
PART I. A Frontier of the Mind (2017) (0)
The life of a Korean communist (1974) (0)
A little history is a bad thing (2001) (0)
A monstrous idea (1994) (0)
Hegemons can't help it (2002) (0)
Japan as Number One (or Two): The American Preference for Japan in the East Asian Order, 1894~2014 (2015) (0)
9.1. Boundary Displacement (2020) (0)
Chapter Four _ CRUCIBLE OF POLICY: CONTENDING FORCES IN AMERICAN FOR KOREA, 1943-1945 (2003) (0)
Chapter Four _ PREDESTINATION FOR THE LABYRINTH: SPIES AND SPECULATORS (2003) (0)
Civil Society and Democracy in the United States and East Asia (2012) (0)
Chapter Twelve _ CONCLUSIONS: LIBERATION DENIED (2003) (0)
Cold War Structure and Korea's Regional and Global Security (2002) (0)
China's Bullying No Match for US Pacific Power (2014) (0)
Chapter Ten _ THE SOVIETS AND NORTH KOREA (2003) (0)
1322 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES rationale for American intervention in Indochina during the 1940s and 1950s. On that score, the book's failure to acknowledge the radical critique of American policy (2009) (0)
Introduction to the supplement (1977) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 33 (2004) (0)
Liberal Order in Our Time: Toward “A Moratorium on the Slaying of Dilemmas” (2000) (0)
The Origins of the Cold War in Asia. By Nagai Yōnosuke and Iriye Akira. (New York: Columbia University Press, and Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 448. $25.00.) (1979) (0)
Chapter Twenty-Two _ CONCLUSION: THE SETTING SUN (2003) (0)
The end of history or the return of liberal crisis (1999) (0)
U.S.-North Korean Bilateral Relations and South Korean Security (2001) (0)
Kim Il-song's North Korea. Helen-Louis Hunter (2001) (0)
American-East Asian relations before and after Black September (2003) (0)
China through the looking glass (1999) (0)
Chapter Twenty-One _ THE WAR FOR ROLLBACK (2003) (0)
Chapter Eleven _ THE NORTH WIND (2003) (0)
Reviews (2004) (0)
The End of the Seventy-Years' Crisis (2019) (0)
China, The United Nations, and World Order . By Samuel S. Kim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xviii, 581 pp. Tables, Charts, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. (1980) (0)
Chapter Ten _ THE AUTUMN HARVEST UPRISINGS (2003) (0)
Chapter Eight _ THE GUERRILLA CONFLICT (2003) (0)
Chapter Eighteen _ WHO STARTED THE KOREAN WAR? THREE MOSAICS (2003) (0)
Chapter Two _ LORD AND PEASANT IN COLONIAL KOREA (2003) (0)
Back to Basics? The Recurrence of the Same in Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2014) (0)
East Wind, Rain Red Wind Black Rain: The United States-Japan War, Beginning and End (2012) (0)
Chapter Three _ ROLLBACK AND NATIONALISM (2003) (0)
The Ambiguous Legacy: The American Century and the Third World (1999) (0)
Reviews (2006) (0)
Chapter Two _ CONTAINMENT AND INTERNATIONALISM (2003) (0)
American Foreign Relations and East Asia (2020) (0)
Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War (2016) (0)
Eulogy for John S. Service (2000) (0)
Seeing Like an Area Specialist (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Chapter Nineteen _ THE WAR FOR CONTAINMENT (2003) (0)
Chapter Six _ TOWARD A SEPARATE SOUTHERN GOVERNMENT (2003) (0)
The Binghamton Collective (1983) (0)
Carter J. Eckert. Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945. (2018) (0)
Chapter Thirteen _ “THE SPEECH”: ACHESONIAN DETERRENCE AT THE PRESS CLUB (2003) (0)
Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development. Ed. by Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii, 372 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-691-05703-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-691-05704-4.) (2003) (0)
Chapter Three _ AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1945: REVOLUTION AND REACTION (2003) (0)
Stay the course on Asia (2001) (0)
Compromised in Korea: Redeemed by the Clinton Administrations? (1997) (0)
PART II. From Sea to Shining Sea: Manifest Destiny (2017) (0)
America in East Asia: Symposium on American Cultural Influences in China, Japan, and Korea (2005) (0)
The politics of liberation (1975) (0)
Chapter Eight _ AN OVERVIEW OF THE PEOPLE’S COMMITTEES IN THE PROVINCES (2003) (0)
4. Japan and Northeast Asia into the Twenty-first Century (2019) (0)
You Can't Win for Losing—At Least in the Third World (2008) (0)
Alan Wolfe (1944–1998) (1999) (0)
The Failure of Democracy in South Korea, and: The Widening Gulf: Asian Nationalism and American Policy, and: Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes, and: Divided Korea: The Politics of Development, 1945-1972 (review) (1979) (0)
Chapter Five _ FORGING A NEW ORDER: THE ENTRY OF AMERICAN FORCES AND POLICIES TOWARD THE BUREAUCRACY, THE POLICE, AND THE MILITARY (2003) (0)
East Asia and the United States: Double Vision and Hegemonic Emergence (2012) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
Chapter Eleven _ NORTH KOREA’S CHINA CONNECTION (2003) (0)
Chapter Fourteen _ NORTH KOREA ON THE EVE OF THE WAR (2003) (0)
Mao and Beyond (2004) (0)
Chapter Six _ THE SOUTHERN SYSTEM (2003) (0)
Nuclear Imbalance of Terror: The American Surveillance Regime and North Korea’s Nuclear Programme (1998) (0)
No Substitute for Plain Wisdom (2015) (0)
Chapter Twenty _ THE POLITICAL CHARACTER OF THE WAR: PEOPLE’S COMMITTEES AND WHITE PAJAMAS (2003) (0)
Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory. By Soon Won Park. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 223. $42.50 (2000) (0)
Chapter Nine _ THE NORTHERN SYSTEM (2003) (0)
The Northeast Asian Political Economy Under Two Hegemonies (2019) (0)

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