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Understanding Vietnam
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Studies Vietnamese culture and society in an attempt to understand the events that led up to the Vietnam War, the reasons for America's failure in the war, and the effects the war had on the countr...
Studies Vietnamese culture and society in an attempt to understand the events that led up to the Vietnam War, the reasons for America's failure in the war, and the effects the war had on the country of Vietnam.
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- Creator
- Neil L. Jamieson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 1993
- (1995 [printing])
- Physical Details
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- xv, 428 pages : map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520201574, 9780520201576, 9780585282800, 9780520916586, 0520916581, 0585282803
- OCLC
- ocm32392349, ocm45731704, on1224278695
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-412) and index.
- How the Vietnamese see the world -- Confrontation with the West, 1858-1930 -- The Yin of early modern Vietnamese culture challenges the Yang of tradition, 1932-1939 -- The end of colonialism and the emergence of two competing models for building a modern nation, 1940-1954 -- Yin and Yang in modern guise, 1955-1970 -- Continuity and change in Vietnamese culture and society, 1968-1975 -- Another cycle unfolds