Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945

by David G. Marr

Book Overview

Despite the historical importance of the Vietnam War, we know very little about what the Vietnamese people thought and felt prior to the conflict. Americans have tended to treat Vietnam as an extension of their own hopes and fears, successes and failures, rather than addressing the Vietnamese record. In this volume, David Marr offers the first serious intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior to full-scale revolutionary upheaval...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520050819
• ISBN13: 9780520050815
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"