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Vietnam's lost revolution : Ngô Đình Dịêm's failure to build an independent nation, 1955-1963
- Title
- Vietnam's lost revolution : Ngô Đình Dịêm's failure to build an independent nation, 1955-1963 / Geoffrey C. Stewart.
- Author
- Stewart, Geoffrey (Geoffrey C.), 1973-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xii, 265 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 Dịêm'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"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
- Subjects
- Nation-building
- Postcolonialism
- Vietnam
- Vietnam (Republic)
- Ngô, Đình Dịêm, 1901-1963
- History
- Vietnam (Republic) > Politics and government
- Nation-building > Vietnam (Republic) > History > 20th century
- Postcolonialism > Vietnam (Republic) > History > 20th century
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Political and social views
- War > Causes
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Causes
- Politics and government
- Ngô, Đình Dịêm, 1901-1963 > Political and social views
- 1900-1999
- Vietnam > History > 1945-1975
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 Dịêm'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.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-5380
- ISBN
- 9781107097889
- 1107097886
- LCCN
- 2016051950
- 40027046494
- OCLC
- 959262463
- Author
- Stewart, Geoffrey (Geoffrey C.), 1973- author.
- Title
- Vietnam's lost revolution : Ngô Đình Dịêm's failure to build an independent nation, 1955-1963 / Geoffrey C. Stewart.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in US foreign relationsCambridge studies in US foreign relations.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027046494
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-5380