A short introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War. The book sets the context to the conflict from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full scale war in 1965. It places events in their full international background.
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"For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who …
This work covers Vietnamese culture from its origins to the present. Vietnamese culture is heterogeneous, reflecting the country's shifting geography and multiple peoples over the past two thousand years. It has maintained its independent nature while at the same time interactin…
A history of the four decades leading up to the Vietnam War offers insights into how the U.S. became involved, identifying commonalities between the campaigns of French and American forces while discussing relevant political factors.
A history of the four decades leading up to the Vietnam War offers insights into how the U.S. became involved, identifying commonalities between the campaigns of French and American forces while discussing relevant political factors.
Chronicles American involvement in Vietnam, from the 1950s through the 1970s, documenting strategic and tactical failures and reviewing the charges made against the American conduct of the war.
In 1986, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) adopted the Doi Moi (Renovation) policy at its sixth national congress, opening up a new chapter in the country's modern history. Under Doi Moi, Vietnam has undergone significant socio-economic, political and foreign policy reforms t…
Seth Jacobs highlights the context of American cultural conceptions about race & especially religion, in arguing that blind faith in the devoutly catholic Ngo Dinh Diem eclipsed what little real knowledge about predominantly Buddhist Vietnam was possessed by the Eisenhower admin…
Caodaism is a new religion born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, now trying to reshape the goals of its four million followers. Colorful and strikingly syncretistic, it incorporates elements of Chinese, B…
Christina Schwenkel explores how the 'American War' is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam. She looks at monuments, museums, cemeteries, battlefield tours and related sites, and offers an assessment of they ways in which Vietnamese and American memories of the war intersect.
Christina Schwenkel explores how the 'American War' is remembered & commemorated in Vietnam. She looks at monuments, museums, cemetaries, battlefield tours & related sites, & offers an assessment of they ways in which Vietnamese & American memories of the war intersect.
"Investigates how public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape since the mid 1990s and how state authorities have dealt with it with a combination of responsiveness, toleration, and repression"...
"Vietnam in the last two decades has experienced not only market reform and significant economic growth but also a related, symbiotic revival of popular religion. It is no surprise, then, that popular beliefs and rituals that once were attacked as wasteful and superstitious have…
"This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"--
Getting organized in Vietnam: moving in and around the socialist state
by Kerkvliet, Benedict J., Koh, David W. H., (David Wee Hock), Heng, Russell H. K., (Russell Hiang-Khng), Vietnam Update Conference, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Australian National University
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Presents original case studies of the gamut of organizations in Vietnam today and analyses their relationship with, and upward effects on, umbrella state organizations, which are themselves evolving.
Getting organized in Vietnam: moving in and around the socialist state
by Kerkvliet, Benedict J., Koh, David W. H., (David Wee Hock), Heng, Russell H. K., (Russell Hiang-Khng), Vietnam Update Conference, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Australian National University
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Type: Book
Presents original case studies of the gamut of organizations in Vietnam today and analyses their relationship with, and upward effects on, umbrella state organizations, which are themselves evolving.
"Vietnam is a country on the move. Yet contemporary Vietnam's education system is at a crossroads. Rapid economic growth has permitted rapid increases in the scale and scope of formal schooling, but there is a prevailing sense that the current education system is inadequate to t…