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What is Political History?

Kathleen Burk | Published in History Today Volume 35 Issue 1 January 1985

In the continuing series 'What is...history?' eight historians define political history - an area sometimes regarded as 'narrow', 'elitist' or simply 'dull',

Satirical illustration of the Russo-Japanese War, depicting a Japanese soldier stepping on a Korean as a Russian looks on. By Georges Ferdinand Bigot, Paris, c.1904. Chronicle of World History / Alamy Stock Photo

Korea the Kingmaker

Sheila Miyoshi Jager | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 7 July 2023

The Korean peninsula was a chessboard on which the fates of great powers were decided.