Search Results for Vietnam

...Mark Sidel If Hayton has the goal of bringing the complexities of Vietnam to a fairly wide audience, Schwenkel's target is the academic audience, but her canvas is the breadth of the Vietnamese and American experiences with each other since the war. All of the ethnography is engrossing, and some...

...David G. Marr Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam . By Jessica M. Chapman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xi, 276 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam...

... ( 2000 ): 739 –69 . What the accounts of Mark Bradley and David Hunt reveal is the tenuous nature of the existing dominant narrative that the Northern victory resulted from a unified, even sacred, war carried out by the NLF and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. What these books, along...

... explicitly compared the Khmer Krom with other ethnic minorities in Vietnam and elsewhere, something that he is well-positioned to do given his previous study of the Mekong Delta's Muslim Cham. For example, I would have liked to learn what Taylor thinks about how nature gives rise to, and impedes, national...

...David Wurfel Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled. Vol. I, From Colonialism to the Vietminh. Vol. II, Vietnam at War . By Joseph Buttinger . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1967 . xi, 1346 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association...

...Judith Henchy Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950 . By Mark Philip Bradley . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2000 . xiv, 304 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

...Mark W. McLeod Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975 . By The Military History Institute of Vietnam . Translated by Merle L. Pribbenow . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2002 . xxvi, 494 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Truong Buu Lam Propriété privée et propriété collective dans l'ancien Vietnam . [Private property and collective property in ancient Vietnam] . By Ngo Kim Chung and Nguyen Duc Nghinh . Translated by George Boudarel , Lydie Prin , and Vu Can . Paris : Éditions de L'Harmattan , 1987...

...Robert K. Brigham The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War . By David L. Anderson . New York : Columbia University Press , 2002 . xiv , 308 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War . By Edwin E. Moïse . Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press , 2001 . 1 , 493 pp...

...Douglas Pike An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy Strategy . By R. B. Smith . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1985 . xii, 429 pp. Tables, Maps, List of Abbreviations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $25 (cloth). America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam...

...Hy V. Luong Dilemmas of Development: Vietnam Update 1994 . Edited by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet . Canberra : Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University , 1995 . vii, 133 pp. $A12.00 (paper). Urban Harvest...

...Yukti Mukdawijitra Drawing from research conducted between 2004 and 2006, Ito divides her book into four chapters. The first chapter is an overview of the history of ethnology in Vietnam. Ito argues that “Vietnamese ethnology came to be valued only as a part of politics and service to politics...

...Hue-Tam Ho Tai Histoire du Vietnam: Des origines à 1858. [History of Vietnam: From its origins to 1858] . By Le Thanh Khoi . Paris : Sudestasie Publishers , 1987 . 452 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 212 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES role...

...Edwin E. Moise Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam . By William Colby with James McCargar . Chicago : Contemporary Books , 1989 . 438 pp. $22.95. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975 . Phillip B. Davidson . Novato, CA...

...: An Interreligious Encounter in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam . By Anh Q. Tran . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xvi, 364 pp. ISBN: 9780190677602 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 It is a rare pleasure when scholars have access...

...Truong Buu Lam Why Vietnam? Prelude to America's Albatross . By Archimedes L. A. Patti . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1980 . xx, 612 pp. Appendixes, Photographs, Charts of Communist Organizations, Bibliography, Index. $19.50 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). Vietnam . By Hugh...

...Stephen M. Graw Health and Wealth in Vietnam: An Analysis of Household Living Standards . Edited by Dominique Haughton , Jonathan Haughton , Sarah Bales , Truong Thi Kim Chuyen , and Nguyen Nguyet Nga . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1999 . xxi, 276 pp. $32.00...

...Marc Jason Gilbert The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature and Music . Edited by Kenton J. Clymer . El Paso : Texas Western Press , 1998 . x, 195 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1192 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Because conversation is so...

...David Hunt Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace . By Gabriel Kolko . London and New York : Routledge , 1997 . ix, 190 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 609 of a land in which the rich and powerful...

...William Duiker Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War . By David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai . London : I. B. Tauris , 1996 . xxii, 215 pp. $16.95 (paper). 598 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES hard to remember much...