Geoffrey Stewart

Vietnam's Lost Revolution

Ngô Đình Diệm's Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955-1963

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Produktbeschreibung

Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs archival material from Vietnam to examine the First Republic of Vietnam's Civic Action program, designed to recast the newly independent state as a modern, anticommunist nation. This book engages with topics like nationalism, post-colonialism, and development in its examination of events that led to the Vietnam War.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781107097889
• ISBN-10: 1107097886
• Artikelnr.: 46496985

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey C. Stewart is an assistant professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on the intersection of decolonization with the Cold War in the developing world. He specializes in the history of Vietnam's wars, twentieth-century international relations, and the United States in the world. He has published in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and written book reviews for H-Diplo, Cross-Currents and the Journal of Asian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A temporary expedient: the origins of civic action in Vietnam
2. Nationalism and welfare improvement in the Republic of Vietnam
3. Revolution, community development, and the construction of Di¿m's Vietnam
4. 'Bettering the people's conditions of existence': civic action and community development, 1957-9
5. Civic action and insurgency
6. The strategic Hamlet program and civic action in retreat
Conclusion: Vietnam's lost revolution.