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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Duiker, William J., 1932- Vietnam. Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 1995 (OCoLC)605038211 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William J Duiker |
| ISBN: | 0813385881 9780813385884 081338589X 9780813385891 |
| OCLC Number: | 31288119 |
| Description: | xi, 250 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Land and People -- The Geographical Setting -- The Peoples of Vietnam -- 2. Precolonial Vietnam -- Prehistory -- The Origins of Vietnamese Civilization -- The Chinese Conquest -- Independence Restored -- March to the South -- The Coming of the West -- The Tay Son Rebellion -- The Nguyen Dynasty -- The French Conquest -- 3. The Colonial Experience -- The French "Mission Civilisatrice," -- Sources of Nationalism and Communism -- The Coming of World War II -- The August Revolution -- The First Indochina War Begins -- Vietnam Enters the Cold War -- Negotiations at Geneva -- 4. A Nation Divided -- The Diem Regime -- The Second Indochina War Begins -- Tet -- The Invasion of Cambodia -- From Paris to Saigon -- 5. Politics and Government -- Key Characteristics of Vietnamese Political Tradition -- Wind from the West -- Message from Moscow -- Experiment in Democracy: The Republic of Vietnam -- The Democratic Republic of Vietnam -- Unification -- Renovation -- The Fate of Political Reform -- 6. The Economy -- Capitalism and Colonialism -- The Economy of South Vietnam -- Building Socialism in the North -- Unification and the Economy -- The Crisis on the Economic Front -- The Transformation to Socialism in the South -- A Goal for the Nineties: In Search of Wealth and Power -- Perestroika, Vietnamese-style -- 7. Culture and Society -- Philosophy and Religion -- Education in Traditional Vietnam -- The Creative Arts in Traditional Vietnam -- The Challenge of Modernity -- A Society at War -- Onward to Socialism? -- Vietnamese Society and Culture in Renovation -- 8. Foreign Relations -- Vietnam and the Traditional World Order -- Perspectives During the War of Liberation -- March to the West -- Threat from the North -- Confrontation over Cambodia -- Perestroika and Foreign Policy -- The Vietnamese Revolution in World Context -- 9. Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Nations of the modern world., Asia. |
| Responsibility: | William J. Duiker. |
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Abstract:
"Vietnam's leaders have been forced to move toward a market-oriented economy while maintaining their ultimate goal of building a socialist society. Offering an expanded and thoroughly revised edition of his successful text, William Duiker traces the course of Vietnamese history from its origins to the end of the Vietnam War. He considers the country's political structure, foreign relations, economic situation, social problems, and cultural heritage, analyzing the diverse aspects of Vietnamese society and revealing how they have been affected by a generation of conflict and socialist transformation. The author concludes with a discussion of the dynamic factors underlying the Vietnamese revolution, looking at how the changes have affected both the region and the course of the global Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
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