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The Historians' Historians

History Today | Published in History Today Volume 61 Issue 12 December 2011

As our 60th anniversary year nears its conclusion we asked distinguished historians to choose their favourite works of history produced in the last 60 years

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. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Public Domain.

The Kingmaker: Korea Between Asia’s Great Powers

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

The 19th-century Korean peninsula was a chessboard on which the fates of great powers were decided.