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<p>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.<br> In this volume, David Marr offers the first serious intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior to full-scale revolutionary upheaval and protracted military conflict. He argues that changes in political and social consciousness between 1920 and 1945 were a necessary precondition to the mass mobilization and people's war strategies employed subsequently against the French and the Americans. Thus he rejects the prevailing notion that Vietnamese success was primarily due to communist techniques of organization.<br> However, <i>Vietnamese Tradition on Trial</i> goes beyond simply accounting for anyone's victory or defeat to an informed description of intellectual currents in general. Replying for his information on a previously ignored corpus of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and leaflets, the author isolates eight issues of central concern to twentieth-centur

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Author

David G Marr; History E-Book Project.; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520907447

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Asian History

Rating

4 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14