It's not in your genre... but I think I'll go with Bruce Cuming's Korea's Place in the Sun. It's an excellently-written history of modern Korea. It is well-cited, clear about its theses, elegantly written, and often assigned for students. It is also willfully blind, occasionally deceitful, patronizing towards many of its subjects, and made some predictions about the future that turned out to be not just wrong, but a strange mix of tragically and hilariously wrong.
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