Understanding Vietnam

Informationen zum Autor Neil L. Jamieson is on the staff of the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development and is also a Senior Associate of the Indochina Institute at George Mason University. Klappentext To better understand ourselves, we must understand the Vietnam War. We must learn more about Vietnamese culture and Vietnamese paradigms in order to untangle the muddled debates about our own. Realizing that we must do this is the first and most important lesson of Vietnam. And it is one we Americans have been exasperatingly slow to learn. We remain far too ready to assume that other people are, or want to be, or should be, like us. Zusammenfassung This text argues that to understand the Vietnam War, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture and their ways of looking at the world. The author spent many years living and working in Vietnam. Winner of the 1994 American Library Association's Outstanding Academic Book Award. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. How the Vietnamese See the World 2. Confrontation with the West! 1858-1930 3. The Yin of Early Modern Vietnamese Culture Challenges the Yang of Tradition! 1932-1939 4. The End of Colonialism and the Emergence of Two Competing Models for Building a Modern Nation! 1940-1954 5. Yin and Yang in Modern Guise! 1955-1970 6. Continuity and Change in Vietnamese Culture and Society! 1968-1975 7. Another Cycle Unfolds Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Neil L. Jamieson, Jamieson Neil L.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.1995
• EAN: 9780520201576
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20157-6
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Philip E. Lilienthal Book
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; USA, Vietnam, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / General, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Warfare & defence, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Asian History, Warfare and defence, History of the Americas