Before the Revolution The Vietnamese Peasants under the French

Name: Before the Revolution The Vietnamese Peasants under the French
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ISBN: 9780231076791

ISBN-10: 0231076797

ISBN-13: 9780231076791

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Authors: Ngo Vinh Long

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During the French colonial period (1900-1945), Vietnamese peasants wrote vigorously about the effects of French policies on their living conditions. The vast majority of their writings were censored or contradicted by the published works of French and Vietnamese officials, and none is currenty in print. Ngo Vinh Long presents a realistic portrait of the Vietnamese determination and resiliency that brought down both the French and the American regimes. He describes the effects of French land policy on the peasants and the resulting problems in tenant farming and sharecropping, as well as peasant reaction to taxes, tax collections, usury, government agarian credit programs, commerce, and…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/30/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Ngo Vinh Long is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maine. Born in Vinh Long province, he came to the U.S. in 1964 and was educated at Harvard. He has published over twenty-five articles on economic, social, and historical topics in The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholarsand other journals.