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  • Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies

    History, Community, and Memory

    Edited by Linda Ho Peché, Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, Tuong Vu ...
    The large number of Vietnamese refugees that resettled in the United States since the fall of Saigon have become America’s fastest growing immigrant group. Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies traces the ideologies, networks, and cultural sensibilities that have long influenced and continue to transform social, political, and economic developments in Vietnam and the U.S.Moving beyond ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Vietnam's Communist Revolution

    The Power and Limits of Ideology

    by Tuong Vu ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    By tracing the evolving worldview of Vietnamese communists over 80 years as they led Vietnam through wars, social revolution, and peaceful development, this book shows the depth and resilience of their commitment to the communist utopia in their foreign policy. Unearthing new material from Vietnamese archives and publications, this book challenges the conventional scholarship and the popular image ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The White Pebble

    Madame Nhu's Memoirs

    by Trần Lệ Xuân ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    No other Vietnamese family in modern time had such an intense involvement in high politics and public affairs as the Ngô Đìnhs. Through the tenure of President Ngô Đình Diệm of the Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963), this family helped shape Vietnamese history in numerous ways. President Diệm’s rule in South Vietnam was perceived by many to be authoritarian and nepotistic, but it is important for ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975

    War, Society, Diaspora

    by Trinh M. Luu, Tuong Vu, Dr. David L. Prentice, Dr. George J. Veith, Dr. Cam Hoang Thanh, Dr. Thị Hồng Hà Phạm, Dr. Thùy Dung Trương, Dr. Adrienne Minh-Châu Lê, Professor Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox0, Dr. Jason Gibbs1, Dr. Tuan Hoang2, Dr. Vinh Phu Pham3, Dr. Phạm Vũ Lan Anh4 ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    English-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975 boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and dynamic portrait of the Second Republic. In twelve essays, each based on original archival research, the volume brings to life the Second Republic in all its complexities, displaying how ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963

    by Nu-Anh Tran, Tuong Vu, Phong Tuan Hoàng, Cindy Nguyen, Duy Lap Nguyen, Lương Hải Khôi Nguyễn, Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, Thị Minh Nguyễn, Y Thien Nguyen0, Jason A. Picard1, Yen Vu2, Peter B. Zinoman3 ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous with Vietnam’s modern historical experience. Eager to make sense of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese communists. But this preoccupation has obscured the diversity of ideas and experiences that defined Vietnam in the twentieth century, in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975

    Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building

    Edited by Tuong Vu, Sean Fear ...
    Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975**, presents us with an interpretation of "South Vietnam" as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government.**The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

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  • Vietnam

    A New History

    by Christopher Goscha ...
    **The definitive history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past“The best one-volume history of modern Vietnam in English.” —Wall Street Journal**In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and ... Read more

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  • Misalliance

    Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam

    by Edward Miller ...
    In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as “the miracle man of Southeast Asia” and funneled huge amounts of aid to his South Vietnamese government. But in 1963 Diem was ousted and assassinated in a coup endorsed by President John F. Kennedy. Diem’s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • A Story of Vietnam

    by Truong Buu Lam ...
    A Story of Vietnam is the first comprehensive and inclusive history of Vietnam written in English. It relates Vietnam's past from its origins to the present (2010). It gives as much emphasis to culture as to politics. I call it a story and not a history, because I do not want it to be the usual conventional textbook, overburdened with interminable references and footnotes.A Story of Vietnam can ... Read more

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  • Vietnam Geopolitical Affairs

    by Tùng-Phong ...
    In 1965, in the midst of the Vietnam War, Tùng-Phong reached out to the Vietnamese leaders in the North and South.He wanted to inform his contemporaries about the short-term needs of Vietnam as a whole and opine on long-term goals. The result was the book he published in October 1965: Chính- Vit-Nam or Vietnam Geopolitical Affairs.His daughter, Elizabeth T. Le, offers the first English translation ... Read more

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  • Cauldron of Resistance

    Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam

    by Jessica M. Chapman ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided substantial economic aid and advice to the RVN. Because of this, Diem is often viewed as a mere puppet of the ... Read more

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