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Vietnam's lost revolution : Ngô Đình Diệm's failure to build an independent nation, 1955-1963

Stewart, Geoffrey (Geoffrey C.), 1973- author

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\"Vietnam's Lost Revolution employs newly-released archival material from Vietnam to examine the rise and fall of the Special Commissariat for Civic Action in the First Republic of Vietnam, and in so doing reassesses the origins of the Vietnam War. A cornerstone of Ngô Đình Diệm's presidency, Civic Action was intended to transform Vietnam into a thriving, modern, independent, noncommunist Southeast Asian nation. Geoffrey Stewart juxtaposes Diem's revolutionary plan with the conflicting and competing visions of Vietnam's postcolonial future held by other indigenous groups. He shows how the government failed to gain legitimacy within the peasantry, ceding the advantage to the communist-led opposition and paving the way for the American military intervention in the mid-1960s. This book provides a richer and more nuanced analysis of the origins of the Vietnam War in which internal struggles over national identity, self-determination, and even modernity itself are central\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Ngô, Đình Diệm, 1901-1963 Political and social views. / Nation-building Vietnam (Republic) History 20th century. / Postcolonialism Vietnam (Republic) History 20th century. / POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. / Vietnam (Republic) Politics and government. / Vietnam History 1945-1975. / Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Causes.
• ISBN: 9781107097889

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS556.93.N5 S74 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE