Vietnams Lost Revolution

Author : Geoffrey C. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210465
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Lost Revolution written by Geoffrey C. Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A cornerstone of Ngô Đình Diệm's presidency, Civic Action was intended to transform Vietnam into a thriving, modern, independent, noncommunist Southeast Asian nation. Geoffrey Stewart juxtaposes Diem's revolutionary plan with the conflicting and competing visions of Vietnam's postcolonial future held by other indigenous groups. He shows how the government failed to gain legitimacy within the peasantry, ceding the advantage to the communist-led opposition and paving the way for the American military intervention in the mid-1960s. This book provides a richer and more nuanced analysis of the origins of the Vietnam War in which internal struggles over national identity, self-determination, and even modernity itself are central.

Author : Geoffrey C. Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108218566
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Lost Revolution written by Geoffrey C. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the origins of the Vietnam War, examining President Ngô Đình Diệm's efforts to build a modern, independent nation amongst internal struggles

Author : Geoffrey Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107483996
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Lost Revolution written by Geoffrey Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Diem'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

Author : Robert Shaplen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Revolution written by Robert Shaplen and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Shaplen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Revolution written by Robert Shaplen and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tuong Vu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316875954
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Communist Revolution written by Tuong Vu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications, this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular image of the Vietnamese revolution and the Vietnam War as being driven solely by patriotic inspirations. The revolution not only saw successes in defeating foreign intervention, but also failures in bringing peace and development to Vietnam. This was, and is, the real tragedy of Vietnam. Spanning the entire history of the Vietnamese revolution and its aftermath, this book examines its leaders' early rise to power, the tumult of three decades of war with France, the US, and China, and the stubborn legacies left behind which remain in Vietnam today.

Author : James Hershberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804783888
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marigold written by James Hershberg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war in 1966. The initiative failed, the war dragged on for another seven years, and this episode sank into history as an unresolved controversy. Antiwar critics claimed President Johnson had bungled (or, worse, deliberately sabotaged) a breakthrough by bombing Hanoi on the eve of a planned secret U.S.-North Vietnamese encounter in Poland. Yet, LBJ and top aides angrily insisted that Poland never had authority to arrange direct talks and Hanoi was not ready to negotiate. This book uses new evidence from long hidden communist sources to show that, in fact, Poland was authorized by Hanoi to open direct contacts and that Hanoi had committed to entering talks with Washington. It reveals LBJ's personal role in bombing Hanoi as he utterly disregarded the pleas of both the Polish and his own senior advisors. The historical implications of missing this opportunity are immense: Marigold might have ended the war years earlier, saving thousands of lives, and dramatically changed U.S. political history.

Author : David Hunt
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 1558496920
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam's Southern Revolution written by David Hunt and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses released Rand interviews with 'Viet Cong' defectors and prisoners of war and past work involving the province of M? Tho to create a more up-to-date social framework for the Vietnam War at the village level.

Author : Charles E. Neu
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801863325
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Vietnam written by Charles E. Neu and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-06-16 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century. In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.

Author : John Prados
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam written by John Prados and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major synthesis of the war since 2001, drawing upon a host of newly declassified documents, presidential tapes, and overlooked foreign sources to give the most comprehensive look to date of the war that still haunts America.