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Vietnam's southern revolution : from peasant insurrection to total war

Title: Vietnam's southern revolution : from peasant insurrection to total war / David Hunt.
Author: Hunt, David, 1942-
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.

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Description

xi, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Interview
interviews.
Biographies.
History.
Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index.

Contents

A social history of the Vietnam War -- An itinerant peasantry -- The peasant revolt of 1959-60 -- Contested unities of the golden period -- The popular movement and the generational divide -- Modern girls and new women -- Escalation at ground level -- Mapping the exodus -- The American other -- Fate of the liberated zone -- "Live hour, live minute" -- The Tet Offensive -- Appendix: The uses of a source.

ISBN

9781558496910
1558496912
9781558496927
1558496920

LCCN

2008043126

OCLC

ocn263497807
263497807
SCSB-14471891

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library