Vietnam 1945
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A01=David G. Marr
analysis of modern vietnamese history
archival research
Author_David G. Marr
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descriptive
detailed
dynastic politics and monarchist ideology
eight decades of french rule
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historians
international and domestic competition for power
interviews
japanese military occupation ceased
memoirs and documents
nineteen forty five
political scientists
receive japanese surrender
significant year in vietnam history
sociologists
war and revolution sustain each other
Product details
- ISBN 9780520212282
- Weight: 998g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Eight decades of French rule lay shattered. Five years of Japanese military occupation ceased. Allied leaders determined that Chinese troops in the north of Indochina and British troops in the South would receive the Japanese surrender. Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with himself as president. Drawing on extensive archival research, interviews, and an examination of published memoirs and documents, David G. Marr has written a richly detailed and descriptive analysis of this crucial moment in Vietnamese history. He shows how Vietnam became a vortex of intense international and domestic competition for power, and how actions in Washington and Paris, as well as Saigon, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh's mountain headquarters, interacted and clashed, often with surprising results. Marr's book probes the ways in which war and revolution sustain each other, tracing a process that will interest political scientists and sociologists as well as historians and Southeast Asia specialists.
David G. Marr is Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He is the author of Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885-1925 (California, 1971) and Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 (California, 1981).
