Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945

Name: Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945
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ISBN: 9780520050815

ISBN-10: 0520050819

ISBN-13: 9780520050815

Edition: 1984

Authors: David G. Marr

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Despite the historical importance of the Vietnam War, we know very little about what the Vietnamese people thought and felt prior to the conflict. Americans have tended to treat Vietnam as an extension of their own hopes and fears, successes and failures, rather than addressing the Vietnamese record. In this volume, David Marr offers the first serious intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior to full-scale revolutionary upheaval and protracted military conflict. He argues that changes in political and social consciousness between 1920 and 1945 were a necessary precondition to the mass mobilization and people's war strategies employed subsequently against the French…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/3/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.496



List of Abbreviations


Preface


Introduction



The Colonial Setting



Morality Instruction



Ethics and Politics



Language and Literacy



The Question of Women



Perceptions of the Past



Harmony and Struggle



Knowledge Power



Learning from Experience



Conclusion


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index