James I Matray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James I Matray |
| GIVEN NAMES | James I |
| FAMILY NAME | Matray |
| SIGNATURE | MATRAY J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Chico |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5939-1209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Potsdam Revisited
Scholarly debate about the reasons for Korea’s division at the 38th parallel in August 1945 has not been particularly intense. Early historical accounts accepted the u.s. government’s claim that the United States and the Soviet Union made a hasty decision to partition the country as a matter of military convenience to coordinate the acceptance of the surrender of Japanese forces at the end of World War ii . By the early 1980s, however, new resear…
Still Liking Ike
Korea
Prior military histories of the Korean War have suffered from the flaw of not having access to Communist documents. Allan R. Millett references these materials and an enormous collection of other primary sources in this second volume of a projected trilogy that presents what is “known in the West as the war of 1950-1953, [as] simply the most violent phase of a struggle between two competing visions of a modern, authentic Korean nation” (10). Orig…
Irreconcilable Differences? Realism and Idealism in Cold War Korean-American Relations
Anti-Americanism never should have emerged as a major force in South Korea. After all, Washington was responsible for the creation of the Republic of Korea in August 1948 and provided major support against North Korea during and after the Korean War. After 9/11, however, American failure to balance means and ends in the pursuit of realistic goals caused anti-Americanism to reach a crescendo because it revived with a new ferocity at least four his…
Mixed Message
This article reexamines negotiations to end the Korean War starting on July 10, 1951, and continuing through late November. It presents a new explanation for why reaching an agreement required two years. U.S. leaders publicly had endorsed a demarcation line at the 38th parallel, but the initial U.S. proposal provided for a demilitarized zone extending deep into North Korea. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the United Nations Command, was res…
Korea's war at 60
This article provides a summary of current literature addressing the Korean conflict, from World War II until July 1953. It describes not only the content of major books and articles, but also key areas of interpretive disagreement. Topics cover both political and military affairs
The Great Power Struggle in East Asia 1944–50, Britain, America and Post-War Rivalry
The Great Power Struggle in East Asia 1944–50, Britain, America and Post-War Rivalry Christopher Baxter Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Xiv + 250 pp., ISBN: 978-0-230-20297-9 (£55.00 hardback
The Korean War
Journal Article The Korean War: A History Get access The Korean War: A History. By Bruce Cumings. (New York: Modern Library, 2010. xxvi, 288 pp. $24.00, ISBN978-0-679-64357-9.) James I. Matray James I. Matray California State University Chico, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 1, June 2011, Page 250, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jar164 Published: 01 …
Building a Beacon
On June 19, 1949, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to approve a three-year $180 million aid package for the Republic of Korea (ROK), predicting that it soon would “stand as a beacon to the people of northern Asia” in rejecting “the Communist propaganda with which they are besieged.” Despite these words, many historians have argued that Truman's desire to abandon the ROK invited North Korea's attack in June 1950. Gregg Brazinsky presents e…
Someplace Else
In his State of the Union address on 29 January 2002, President George W. Bush declared that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was part of an “Axis of Evil” that also included Iran and Iraq. He condemned North Korea’s government for arming itself with “missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.” These remarks infuriated many political leaders and average citizens in the Republic of Korea (ROK) because Bu…
Black Hawk Down
During the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign, then Republican candidate George W. Bush harshly criticized the pursuit of “nation-building” as a foreign policy objective. Bush undoubtedly hoped that American voters would remember not only the disastrous results of U.S. “nation-building” efforts in Vietnam but more recently those in Somalia, where Americans watched on television an angry mob drag the body of a dead U.S. soldier through the s…
MacArthur's War
Development Delayed
On 9 September 1945, U.S. military forces landed at Inchon to begin American occupation of southern Korea. For almost three years thereafter, a U.S. military government under the command of Lieutenant General John R. Hodge was responsible for civil affairs south of the 38th parallel. Its policies resulted in delaying Korea's economic development. Early in World War II, the U.S. government had begun preparations for the postwar administration of m…
MacArthur's Jungle War
Old Soldiers Never Die
The Korean War
Journal Article The Korean War: An International History. By William Stueck. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 484 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-03767-1.) Get access James I. Matray James I. Matray New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 694, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945080 Published:…
Blowing Smoke
Journal Article Blowing Smoke: Anglo-American Policy and Drugs in East Asia Get access Walker William O.III. Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo-American Search for Order in Asia, 1912–1954.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1991 xvi + 346 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps, index. $39.95 James I. Matray James I. Matray JAMES I. MATRAY was promoted in 1992 to professor of history at New Mexico State University, where he received a Donald …
Historical Dictionary of the Korean War
Journal Article Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Ed. by James I. Matray. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. xxxiii + 629 pp. $85.00, ISBN 0-313-25924-0.) and The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. Ed. by Marc Jason Gilbert. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. x + 300 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-27740-0.) Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Feature Review
In his 1989 Stuart L. Bernath Memorial Lecture, Stephen G. Rabe urged historians of inter-American relations either to attempt a synthesis or to produce a new general interpretation for the field. Doing so, he said, would entail looking at the impact of connections across borders, that is, examining the socioeconomic, along with the political, milieu within which the United States has sought to exert predominant influence. Scholars, Rabe conclude…
Fatal Voyage
(1991). Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 156-156
Origins of the Korean War
The Collapse of the Middle Way
Journal Article The Collapse of the Middle Way: Senate Republicans and the Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948–1952. By David R. Kepley. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiii + 197 pp. $37.95.) Get access James I. Matray James I. Matray University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908483 Published: 01…
One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882-1982
The United States and Korea
The Reluctant Crusade
Captive of the Cold War
Research Article| May 01 1981 Captive of the Cold War: The Decision to Divide Korea at the 38th Parallel James I. Matray James I. Matray Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1981) 50 (2): 145–168. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638724 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
Korea's war at 60
This article provides a summary of current literature addressing the Korean conflict, from World War II until July 1953. It describes not only the content of major books and articles, but also key areas of interpretive disagreement. Topics cover both political and military affairs
The Korean War
Journal Article The Korean War: A History Get access The Korean War: A History. By Bruce Cumings. (New York: Modern Library, 2010. xxvi, 288 pp. $24.00, ISBN978-0-679-64357-9.) James I. Matray James I. Matray California State University Chico, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 1, June 2011, Page 250, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jar164 Published: 01 …
Truman's Plan for Victory
Journal Article Truman's Plan for Victory: National Self-Determination and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel Decision in Korea Get access James I. Matray James I. Matray lecturer in history California State College, Bakersfield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 314–333, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900879 Published: 01 September 1979
An End to Indifference
The long tradition of American indifference to Korea was destroyed by World War II. Until then, American disinterest was completely justified. The United States possessed no vital security interests in that peninsula and had no reason to have a policy regarding that nation. Korean affairs were the exclusive concern of closer and more powerful neighbors—China, Russia, and Japan. Korea was, in fact, the strategic focal point of northeast Asia and, …
Truman's Plan for Victory
Journal Article Truman's Plan for Victory: National Self-Determination and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel Decision in Korea Get access James I. Matray James I. Matray lecturer in history California State College, Bakersfield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 314–333, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900879 Published: 01 September 1979
America's Reluctant Crusade
(1980). America's Reluctant Crusade: Truman's Commitment of Combat Troops in the Korean War. The Historian: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 437-455
Captive of the Cold War
Research Article| May 01 1981 Captive of the Cold War: The Decision to Divide Korea at the 38th Parallel James I. Matray James I. Matray Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1981) 50 (2): 145–168. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638724 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
The Road to Confrontation
Journal Article The Road to Confrontation: American Policy toward China and Korea, 1947–1950. By William Whitney Stueck, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. ix + 326 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $20.00; paper, $10.00.) Get access James I. Matray James I. Matray New Mexico State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Iss…
Promise and Performance
The Reluctant Crusade
The United States and Korea
The Reluctant Crusade
Reluctant Crusade
One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882-1982
Origins of the Korean War
The Collapse of the Middle Way
Journal Article The Collapse of the Middle Way: Senate Republicans and the Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948–1952. By David R. Kepley. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiii + 197 pp. $37.95.) Get access James I. Matray James I. Matray University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 318, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908483 Published: 01…
Fatal Voyage
(1991). Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 156-156
Feature Review
In his 1989 Stuart L. Bernath Memorial Lecture, Stephen G. Rabe urged historians of inter-American relations either to attempt a synthesis or to produce a new general interpretation for the field. Doing so, he said, would entail looking at the impact of connections across borders, that is, examining the socioeconomic, along with the political, milieu within which the United States has sought to exert predominant influence. Scholars, Rabe conclude…
Blowing Smoke
Journal Article Blowing Smoke: Anglo-American Policy and Drugs in East Asia Get access Walker William O.III. Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo-American Search for Order in Asia, 1912–1954.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1991 xvi + 346 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps, index. $39.95 James I. Matray James I. Matray JAMES I. MATRAY was promoted in 1992 to professor of history at New Mexico State University, where he received a Donald …
Historical Dictionary of the Korean War
Journal Article Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Ed. by James I. Matray. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. xxxiii + 629 pp. $85.00, ISBN 0-313-25924-0.) and The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. Ed. by Marc Jason Gilbert. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. x + 300 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-27740-0.) Get access Randy Roberts Randy Roberts Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Korean War
Journal Article The Korean War: An International History. By William Stueck. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 484 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-03767-1.) Get access James I. Matray James I. Matray New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Page 694, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945080 Published:…
Old Soldiers Never Die
MacArthur's Jungle War
MacArthur's War
Development Delayed
On 9 September 1945, U.S. military forces landed at Inchon to begin American occupation of southern Korea. For almost three years thereafter, a U.S. military government under the command of Lieutenant General John R. Hodge was responsible for civil affairs south of the 38th parallel. Its policies resulted in delaying Korea's economic development. Early in World War II, the U.S. government had begun preparations for the postwar administration of m…
Black Hawk Down
During the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign, then Republican candidate George W. Bush harshly criticized the pursuit of “nation-building” as a foreign policy objective. Bush undoubtedly hoped that American voters would remember not only the disastrous results of U.S. “nation-building” efforts in Vietnam but more recently those in Somalia, where Americans watched on television an angry mob drag the body of a dead U.S. soldier through the s…
Someplace Else
In his State of the Union address on 29 January 2002, President George W. Bush declared that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was part of an “Axis of Evil” that also included Iran and Iraq. He condemned North Korea’s government for arming itself with “missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.” These remarks infuriated many political leaders and average citizens in the Republic of Korea (ROK) because Bu…
Building a Beacon
On June 19, 1949, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to approve a three-year $180 million aid package for the Republic of Korea (ROK), predicting that it soon would “stand as a beacon to the people of northern Asia” in rejecting “the Communist propaganda with which they are besieged.” Despite these words, many historians have argued that Truman's desire to abandon the ROK invited North Korea's attack in June 1950. Gregg Brazinsky presents e…
History (27 works) · Political science (24 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (20 works) · Law (20 works) · History (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (16 works) · Economic history (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works)