Part Ⅰ. Setting 1. Class and State Colonial Korea 2. Lord and Peasant in Colonial Korea 3. August to September 1945: Revolution and Reaction 4. Crucible of Policy: Contending Forces in American Planning for Korea, 1945-1945 Part Ⅱ. Politics at the Center, 1945-1947 5. Forging a New Order: The Entry of American Forces and Policies Toward the Bureaucracy, the Police, and the Military 6. Toward a Separate Southern Goverment 7. Internationalist Policy and Nationalist Logic: Hardening at the Center in 1946 Part Ⅲ. Koreans and Americans in the Provinces, 1945-1947