Research Catalog

Title

Vietnam and the West : new approaches / Wynn Wilcox, editor.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program
• Gadkar-Wilcox, Wynn, 1974-

Description

vi, 210 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 52

Uniform Title

Studies on Southeast Asia no. 52.

Subject

• Geschichte 1600-2000
• Internationale Politik
• Kulturkontakt
• Vietnam > History > Congresses
• Vietnam > Relations > Western countries > Congresses
• Vietnam > Western influences > Congresses
• Vietnam
• Western countries > Relations > Vietnam > Congresses
• Westliche Welt

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Kongress – Danbury (Conn.) – 2005.

Note

• "This volume grew out of a conference with the same title that was held at Western Connecticut State University on December 4-5, 2005"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the co-figuration of Vietnam and the West / Wynn Wilcox -- Precolonial encounters (to 1862). The rise of Christian Nôm literature in seventeenth-century Vietnam : fusing European content and local expression / Brian Ostrowski ; Jean Marie Despiau : unjustly maligned physician in the medical service of the Nguyên / C. Michele Thompson ; Đặng Đức Tuấn and the complexities of nineteenth-century Vietnamese Christian identity / Wynn Wilcox -- French and American encounters (1862-1975). More than half the sky : Vietnamese women and anti-French political activism, 1858-1945 / Micheline Lessard ; Persuading the enemy : Vietnamese appeals to non-white forces of occupation, 1945-1975 / Marc Jason Gilbert ; The paradox of western-style trade unionism in South Vietnam / Edmund F. Wehrle ; The search for a third force in Vietnam : from The quiet American to the Paris peace agreement / Sophie Quinn-Judge -- Recent encounters (1975-present). Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the United States : blurring the boundaries / Diane Niblack Fox ; Strategic waters, tragic waters : water privatization in Vietnam / Christopher L. Kukk

ISBN

• 9780877277828 (hbk.)
• 0877277826 (hbk.)
• 9780877277521 (pbk.)
• 0877277524 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011282058

OCLC

687615095

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library